Curriculum Quotes

• 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

  Thank You, Education, Thankful

  Carl Gustav Jung (1970). “The development of personality”

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• 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

  Running, Learning, School

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• Curriculum should help children make deeper and fuller understanding of their own experience

  Lilian Katz

  Children, Understanding, Helping

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• Important element is deeply understanding our curriculum. Most teachers know what they're going to cover this week or this term. Few of us can specify precisely what students should know, understand, and be able to do as a result of any particular learning experience or set of learning experiences. Without that specificity, alignment between content, assessment, and instruction is weak.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Teacher, Assessment, Understanding

  Source: blogs.edweek.org

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• We have to stop delivering the curriculum to kids. We have to start discovering it with them.

  Will Richardson

  Kids, Discovering, Delivering

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• Let the questions be the curriculum.

  Socrates

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• It costs the same to send a person to prison or to Harvard. The difference is the curriculum.

  Paul Hawken

  Differences, Cost, Prison

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• What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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• It is easier to move a cemetery than to change a curriculum.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Moving, Easier, Cemetery

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• Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child

  Charles Handy

  Children, Learning, School

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• More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given

  Bertrand Russell

  Teacher, Educational, Teaching

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “On Education”, p.181, Routledge

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• 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

  Children, School, People

  Lisa Delpit (2012). “"Multiplication Is for White People": Raising Expectations for Other People's Children”, p.23, New Press, The

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• I imagine a school system that recognizes learning is natural, that a love of learning is normal, and that real learning is passionate learning. A school curriculum that values questions above answers...creativity above fact regurgitation...individuality above conformity.. and excellence above standardized performance..... And we must reject all notions of 'reform' that serve up more of the same: more testing, more 'standards', more uniformity, more conformity, more bureaucracy.

  Tom Peters

  Real, Creativity, School

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• 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

  Children, Creativity, School

  Renee Fleming (2005). “The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer”, p.25, Penguin

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• 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

  School, Ideas, Discipline

  Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.160, Penguin

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• • As society rapidly changes, individuals will have to be able to function comfortably in a world that is always in flux. Knowledge will continue to increase at a dizzying rate. This means that a content-based curriculum, with a set body of information to be imparted to students, is entirely inappropriate as a means of preparing children for their adult roles.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Children, Mean, Adults

  John Taylor Gatto (2013). “Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling”, p.13, New Society Publishers

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• I don't think the same curriculum fits every student body.

  Louis Menand

  Thinking, Body, Students

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Life is a school and problems are the curriculum.

  Rick Warren

  School, Problem, Life Is

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• 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

  Thinking, Ideas, Understanding

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• 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

  School, Kids, Games

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• We do need curriculum reform. And it should happen at the state and local level. That is where educational policy belongs, because if a parent is unhappy with what their child is being taught in school, they can go to that local school board or their state legislature, or their governor and get it changed.

  Marco Rubio

  Children, Educational, School

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• The difficulty with coming up with a curriculum is mainly that faculty aren't trained to think in terms of general education. They're trained to think in terms of their own discipline, or their specialty.

  Louis Menand

  Thinking, Discipline, Faculty

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• To force a human being to learn according to a set curriculum is a dictatorial act.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Force, Humans, Human Beings

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• We must never return to the Julie Andrews curriculum where we teach "a few of my favorite things"!

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Learning, Favorites Things

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• Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard-you never know how many friends the dead have until you try to move them!

  Calvin Coolidge

  Friendship, Moving, College

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