School systems should base their curriculum not on the idea of separate subjects, but on the much more fertile idea of disciplines...… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
Well, I think that abstinence has its place as part of a comprehensive health and sex education curriculum. It would be wrong… — Kerry Healey Copy Share Image
We have so much to cover and so little time to cover it. Howard Gardner refers to curriculum coverage as the single… — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
You will be Presented with Lessons: You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called ‘life.’ Each day in this school you… — Cherie Carter-Scott Copy Share Image
There are many challenges in the global education ecosystem: from top-down systemic issues in how educational services are organized and delivered, to… — Adam Braun Copy Share Image
As a school board member, I might have particular views about the ways we might increase the economics curriculum in a local… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
As I very much liked to draw and paint as a child, I entered a special art program in high school, which… — Jerome Isaac Friedman Copy Share Image
The content of the curriculum should never exclude the realities of the very students who must intellectually wrestle with it. When students… — Johnnetta B. Cole Copy Share Image
I don't think film schools are mentoring kids. I think they just send them through the curriculum, so now you know how… — Rob Nilsson Copy Share Image
We do need curriculum reform. And it should happen at the state and local level. That is where educational policy belongs, because… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Is that why you came?' 'No, I came because I simply can't get enough of people looking down their noses at me.… — Shana Abe Copy Share Image
I have never understood the importance of having children memorize battle dates. It seems like such a waste of mental energy. Instead,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...we're in English class, which for most of us is an excruciating exercise in staying awake through the great classics of literature.… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
As I have grown older I am more and more convinced that I have not grown up, that my powers have not… — Corra May Harris Copy Share Image
• As society rapidly changes, individuals will have to be able to function comfortably in a world that is always in flux.… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
Parents teach in the toughest school in the word: The School for Making People. You are the board of education, the principal,… — Virginia Satir Copy Share Image
The practice of discernment is part of higher consciousness. Discernment is not just a step up from judgment. In life's curriculum, it… — Glenda Green Copy Share Image
But suppose, asks the student of the professor, we follow all your structural rules for writing, what about that something else that… — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
How far back to the elementary school core curriculum do we have to go to get someone on the House Committee on… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
MindSparks has produced some of the best materials on the market for teaching students how to read and write history with intellectual… — Sam Wineburg Copy Share Image
I do not think that any thorough-going modification of college curriculum would be possible without a modification of the methods of instruction. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“Think of a world where “Detachment”, “Gratitude” and “Empathy” were subjects included in every grade school’s curriculum. A new generation would emerge… — Gary Hopkins Copy Share Image
Television is a non graded curriculum and excludes no viewer for any reason, at any time. In other words, in doing away… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Engaging with children in troublesome thinking is problematic, but important. Ignoring the hard stuff and only engaging in the fluff and fun… — Janet Robertson Copy Share Image
If you improve a teacher's self-esteem, confidence, communication skills or stress levels, you improve that teacher's overall effectiveness across the curriculum. — Elaine MacDonald Copy Share Image
Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
Fostering creativity in children is as important as any other part of the school curriculum because it feeds the soul. A daily… — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
Like everybody at that age, I read an awful lot of pulp fiction. But at the same time, I also read quite… — John Hume Copy Share Image
According to a study by Achieve Incorporated, Texas is the first state to make a college-prep curriculum the standard coursework in high… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
The keys are, or were, the training methods used by the ancient mystery schools. We've got hints and tips, we've got little… — Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki Copy Share Image
There are obvious places in which government can narrow the chasm between haves and have-nots. One is the public schools, which have… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I have not seen that standardised tests make the profession less attractive, though some principals respond to them in a way that… — Wendy Kopp Copy Share Image
Imprisoning philosophy within the professionalizations and specializations of an institutionalized curriculum, after the manner of our contemporary European and North American culture,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am not against standardized tests. There are tests and tests and tests, and, to simplify, the ones I favor are criterion-referenced… — Nicholas Lemann Copy Share Image
Most teachers have little control over school policy or curriculum or choice of texts or special placement of students, but most have… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
Everything you go through as a Christian is a training exercise behind which God has a divine purpose. He did not save… — David Wilkerson Copy Share Image
Love is the supreme form of communication. In the hierarchy of needs, love stands as the supreme developing agent of the humanity… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
While still sixteen I am put in charge of a class of forty children who are two, three or four years younger… — Hal Porter Copy Share Image
The child to be concerned about is the one who is actively unhappy, [in school]… In the long run, a child's emotional… — Dorothy H Cohen Copy Share Image
The problem with intelligent-design theory, is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable. Not being susceptible to contradicting… — George Will Copy Share Image