School Curriculum Quotes - Page 2

• I think I'd concentrate on young women - particularly girls at school - and I would try and build into school curriculums much more education about relationships and how girls (and boys) can handle them: stuff about consent and that sort of thing.

  Jo Brand

  Girl, School, Boys

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• To change the media, you're gonna have to totally throw out every journalism school and get rid of everybody in every newsroom, and then you're gonna have to change the grade school and middle school and high school curriculum.

  Rush Limbaugh

  School, Media, Curriculum

  "Are Conservatives Hopelessly Outnumbered?". "The Rush Limbaugh show" with Rush Limbaugh, www.rushlimbaugh.com. November 19, 2013.

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• Only in mathematics and physics was I, through self-study, far beyond the school curriculum, and also with regard to philosophy as it was taught in the school curriculum.

  Albert Einstein

  Philosophy, School, Self

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.24, Princeton University Press

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• The school curriculum today, particularly American history, is a shame.

  Rush Limbaugh

  School, Curriculum, Today

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• When I went to school, you had to take art, you had to play an instrument. You had to play an instrument. But it's all degraded since then. I do not know what kind of nation we are that is cutting art, music, and gym out of the public-school curriculum.

  Spike Lee

  Art, School, Cutting

  "Spike Lee Talks Obama, the End of Mookie's Brooklyn, and the Hollywood Color Line". Interview with Will Leitch, www.vulture.com. July 8, 2012.

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• As I very much liked to draw and paint as a child, I entered a special art program in high school, which was very much like being in an art school imbedded in a regular high school curriculum.

  Jerome Isaac Friedman

  Art, Children, School

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• I have not seen that standardised tests make the profession less attractive, though some principals respond to them in a way that drives the best teachers out of their schools (by over-emphasising test prep in the school curriculum for example). On the other hand, great teachers want benchmarks to measure progress and tests can help with that.

  Wendy Kopp

  Teacher, School, Hands

  Source: www.economist.com

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• Since free men cannot judge for themselves what endangers their freedom if they believe it is never in danger, it is the chief burden of the public school curriculum to persuade children that their liberty is always secure.

  Walter Karp

  Children, Believe, 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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• The Arts' position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young what adults believe is important.

  Elliot W. Eisner

  Education, Art, Believe

  "The Arts and the Creation of Mind". Book by Elliot W. Eisner, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2002.

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