84 Curriculum Quotes
Following is our list of curriculum quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about school curriculum.
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Famous Curriculum Quotes
Let the questions be the curriculum. — Socrates
Curriculum should help children make deeper and fuller understanding of their own experience — Lilian Katz
More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given — Bertrand Russell
We have so much to cover and so little time to cover it. Howard Gardner refers to curriculum coverage as the single greatest enemy of understanding. Think instead about ideas to be discovered. — Alfie Kohn
To force a human being to learn according to a set curriculum is a dictatorial act. — Muammar al-Gaddafi
If the curriculum we use to teach our children does not connect in positive ways to the culture young people bring to school, it is doomed to failure. — Lisa Delpit
Do away with curriculum. Do away with segregation by age. And do away with the idea that there should be uniformity of all schools and of what people learn. — Seymour Papert
The content of the curriculum should never exclude the realities of the very students who must intellectually wrestle with it. When students study all worlds except their own, they are miseducated. — Johnnetta B. Cole
Modern education is like being taken to the world's greatest restaurant & being forced to eat the menu. — Murray Gell-Mann
Education and the process of educating is a total integral, contextual situation which includes students, teachers, parents, administration and environment. — Jean Houston
The specific course you decide upon is, within certain parameters, less important than the vigor with which you execute it. — Jeff Cooper
The modern school without systematic lectures turns out many graduates who lack retention. No sooner has the sound of the word left their teacher's lips, the subject has been forgotten. — Arturo Alfonso Schomburg
The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education. — John W. Gardner
FOCUS - Follow One Course Until Successful — Robert Kiyosaki
Teachers need to integrate technology seamlessly into the curriculum instead of viewing it as an add-on, an afterthought, or an event. — Heidi Hayes Jacobs
Short Curriculum Quotes
- Everybody is unique. Compare not yourself with anybody else lest you spoil God's curriculum. — Baal Shem Tov
- My father was also a principal of a school and mother was a curriculum advisor. Both were educators. — Edwin Moses
- The sex curriculum will be essentially by taught by the local gay community. — Michele Bachmann
- The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum. — Menander
- We have to stop delivering the curriculum to kids. We have to start discovering it with them. — Will Richardson
- School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned. — John Taylor Gatto
- Not to teach the whole curriculum is to give up on the whole man. — Paul Goodman
- We must never return to the Julie Andrews curriculum where we teach "a few of my favorite things"! — Andy Hargreaves
- God does not make our choices easier because temptation is his character development curriculum. — Erwin W. Lutzer
- I don't think the same curriculum fits every student body. — Louis Menand
Importance Of Curriculum Quotes
Fostering creativity in children is as important as any other part of the school curriculum because it feeds the soul. A daily dose of creativity helps children imagine a better world and then create it. — Renee Fleming
Engaging with children in troublesome thinking is problematic, but important. Ignoring the hard stuff and only engaging in the fluff and fun from curriculum choices is to keep underground issues of social justice and to further silence and compound the inequity — Janet Robertson
If you're a teacher you have to teach the curriculum, all that stuff, you have to teach morals, you have to teach values, and you have to teach, all-importantly, self-control. Because a lot of kids don't have it. — Tony Danza
Sport is an important part of the development of kids, and hence, it should be made a part of their curriculum. — Gagan Narang
School Curriculum Quotes
Every maker of video games knows something that the makers of curriculum don't seem to understand. You'll never see a video game being advertised as being easy. Kids who do not like school will tell you it's not because it's too hard. It's because it's--boring — Seymour Papert
It is one thing to take as a given that approximately 70 percent of an entering high school freshman class will not attend college, but to assign a particular child to a curriculum designed for that 70 percent closes off for that child the opportunity to attend college. — James S. Coleman
Testing is not a substitute for curriculum and instruction. Good education cannot be achieved by a strategy of testing children, shaming educators, and closing schools. — Diane Ravitch
School systems should base their curriculum not on the idea of separate subjects, but on the much more fertile idea of disciplines... which makes possible a fluid and dynamic curriculum that is interdisciplinary. — Ken Robinson
You will be Presented with Lessons: You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called ‘life.’ Each day in this school you will have the opportunity to learn lessons. You may like the lessons or hate them, but you have designed them as part of your curriculum — Cherie Carter-Scott
Give peace a chance, yes, but why not get serious and give it a place in the curriculum: peace courses in every school, every grade, every nation. Unless we teach our children peace, someone else will teach them violence. — Colman McCarthy
Since there is no single set of abilities running throughout human nature, there is no single curriculum which all should undergo. Rather, the schools should teach everything that anyone is interested in learning. — John Dewey
Our second phase was to develop a school curriculum that teaches tolerance, respect for differences, conflict resolution, anger management, and other attributes of peace. — Eddie Bernice Johnson
According to a study by Achieve Incorporated, Texas is the first state to make a college-prep curriculum the standard coursework in high school, starting with this year's ninth grade class. — Rick Perry
The Arts' position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young what adults believe is important. — Elliot W. Eisner
People Writing About Curriculum
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 Socrates |
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 Lilian Katz |
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 Bertrand Russell |
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 Alfie Kohn |
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 Muammar al-Gaddafi |
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 Seymour Papert |
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More Curriculum Quotes
In differentiated classrooms, teachers begin where students are, not the front of a curriculum guide. — Carol Ann Tomlinson
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. — Carl Jung
As an economics professor, I make it a point to teach the marshmallow experiment in every course I teach, as I believe this is the most important lesson that economics can teach individuals, and I am amazed that this lesson is ignored as part of the university curriculum in economics, to the point where many academic economists are completely unfamiliar with the term time preference or its importance. — Saifedean Ammous
If I’m running a grade school curriculum for children, I would probably optimize happiness, nutrition, diet, exercise, How do you build good habits?, How do you break bad habits?, How do you have good relationships?, How do you find your spouse?, meditation, How do you build basic skills, not memorize lots of facts?, What kinds of books should you read? — Naval Ravikant
Every person and every team will be tested on their journey. It is part of the curriculum of life. It's just like riding a bicycle. In the beginning you're going to fall off and get knocked down but the important thing is to get back on, stay strong, and after a while once you master it you'll ride with the confidence of a champion. — Jon Gordon
Real education is about genuine understanding and the ability to figure things out on your own; not about making sure every 7th grader has memorized all the facts some bureaucrats have put in the 7th grade curriculum. — Aaron Swartz
Why is compassion not part of our established curriculum, an inherent part of our education? Compassion, awe, wonder, curiosity, exaltation, humility - these are the very foundation of any real civilization, no longer the prerogatives, the preserves of any one church, but belonging to everyone, every child in every home, in every school. — Yehudi Menuhin
I really am at a place where I think we need to feed every child at school for free and feed them a real school lunch that's sustainable and nutritious and delicious. It needs to be part of the curriculum of the school in the same way that physical education was part of the curriculum, and all children participated. — Alice Waters
'Creation science' has not entered the curriculum for a reason so simple and so basic that we often forget to mention it: because it is false, and because good teachers understand exactly why it is false. — Stephen Jay Gould
Love is the supreme form of communication. In the hierarchy of needs, love stands as the supreme developing agent of the humanity of the person. As such, the teaching of love should be the central core of all early childhood curriculum with all other subjects growing naturally out of such teaching. — Ashley Montagu
The arts teach children to make good judgments about qualitative relationships. Unlike much of the curriculum in which correct answers and rules prevail, in the arts it is judgment rather than rules that prevail. — Elliot W. Eisner
Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that was called cheating. The curriculum sent the clear message to me that learning was a highly individualistic, almost secretive, endeavor. My working class experience...was disparaged. — Henry Giroux
A picture book is a motorcycle: small, loud, fun, and zippy. An easy reader is a chartered bus: obliged to carry a rather dull passenger roster of sanctioned curriculum, plus the baggage of an approved, limited vocabulary. The trick is to design your chartered bus to be as cool and sexy as a motorcycle. — Mo Willems
Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen? — Friedrich Nietzsche
Kids are intimidated by the way science and technology is presented. It's made, frankly, quite boring and it becomes part of a curriculum that chases particularly women and minorities away. — Dean Kamen
The false pride of perennial celebration, of wearing flag lapel pins while betraying the values that the flag stands for, is like the self-esteem curriculum for toddlers, where everything is praised and no achievement ultimately has meaning. — Anne-Marie Slaughter
I began thinking I would do musical theater because in high school that was really the only sort of curriculum they had as far as getting onstage and doing anything that anybody would see. So that's what I did. — Gretchen Mol
Every relationship, every situation is part of a divinely created and highly specific curriculum for your soul growth — Marianne Williamson
The practice of discernment is part of higher consciousness. Discernment is not just a step up from judgment. In life's curriculum, it is the opposite of judgment. Through judgment a man reveals what he needs to confront and learn. Through discernment, one reveals what he has mastered. — Glenda Green
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