Education reform Quotes · Page 3

I think every child in every country, not just South Africa, every year should go to a national park, and it should…

— Lewis Pugh

In differentiated classrooms, teachers begin where students are, not the front of a curriculum guide.

— Carol Ann Tomlinson

Learning the core curriculum cannot come through coercion. It must come through a recognition of the need to integrate with economic life.

— Reuven Rivlin

We need to take on the new media, and in terms of power and public pedagogy, we need to organize a whole…

— Henry Giroux

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

— Bertrand Russell

Why do we need a federal Department of Education? Curriculum should be driven at the local level anyway.

— Todd Wilcox

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

“The Q2L pedagogy involves a melding of technological, social, communicational, scientific, and creative concerns, including:”

— Katie Salen

Charter schools are public schools that operate, to a certain extent, outside the system. They have more control over their teachers, curriculum…

— Maggie Gallagher

With Michigan's economic future on the line, we can't afford to have our 500 local school districts marching in different directions. Instead,…

— Jennifer Granholm

It is one thing to take as a given that approximately 70 percent of an entering high school freshman class will not…

— James S. Coleman

The arts teach children to make good judgments about qualitative relationships. Unlike much of the curriculum in which correct answers and rules…

— Elliot W. Eisner

Since there is no single set of abilities running throughout human nature, there is no single curriculum which all should undergo. Rather,…

— John Dewey

“I have homeschooled long enough to see all kinds of resources working for all kinds of different families. I have learned that…

— Alicia Kazsuk

“If our schools continue to limit the literacy curriculum to reading and writing traditional, alphabetic, printed texts, then our children will be…

— Elizabeth A. Baker

My curriculum would be the whole year. It would be really slow and it would be about human anatomy. I would teach…

— Jen Kirkman

“In looking at our our individual classroom pedagogies and our isolated artistic endeavors, we must broaden the frame of analysis to consider…

— Ann Elizabeth Armstrong

I taught public school for 26 years, but I just can't do it anymore. For years I asked the school board to…

— John Taylor Gatto

I think my deepest criticism of the educational system . . . is that it's all based upon a distrust of the…

— Carl Rogers

I'm not only a lawyer, I have a post doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I work in…

— Michele Bachmann

“Personal responsibility is not only undervalued but actually discouraged by the standard classroom model, with its enforced passivity and rigid boundaries of…

— Salman Khan

Evergreen is arguably the most radical college in the country - and while it does lean far to the left in a…

— Bret Weinstein

“A culture of learning in an adult workplace is not just about “training.” A culture of learning is when a community of…

— Deborah Kenny

“The real curriculum is punctuality, obedience and the acceptance of monotony, those skills we shall require later in life. Oblique aversion therapy…

— Alan Moore

The unfortunate, yet truly exciting thing about your life, is that there is no core curriculum. The entire place is an elective.

— Jon Stewart

I've spent the better part of my career in politics and public policy working on and fighting for education reforms.

— Mark McKinnon

Proper history teaching is being crushed under the weight of play-based pedagogy which infantilises children, teachers and our culture.

— Michael Gove

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

It's not the school, the curriculum, or the teacher, but motivation that is the single most important ingredient in learning.

— Ivan Sutherland

Education reform has as its main purpose to make sure that the education delivered is of quality.

— Enrique Pena Nieto

Inna the school and the college and the institution. The curriculum that I get is European.

— Capleton

The economy is the start and end of everything. You can't have successful education reform or any other reform if you don't…

— David Cameron

It should be a firmly established part of the curriculum that children should visit theatres and concert halls.

— Philip Pullman

Chuck Swindoll is somebody who I've read a lot over the years and have used his curriculum when I've taught Sunday school…

— John Thune

“Philosophy does not concern itself with children. It leaves them to pedagogy. الفلسفة لا تعبأ بالأطفال ، إنها تتركهم إلى علم التربية .”

— Bernhard Schlink

Sport is an important part of the development of kids, and hence, it should be made a part of their curriculum.

— Gagan Narang

I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in…

— Carol Ann Duffy

“Challenge isn't going to come from any curriculum, no matter how hard they make it. It's going to come from life.”

— Gordon Korman

Children stay in school, and perform better, when arts is part of the curriculum.

— Monica Horan

Take all the courses in your curriculum. Do the research. Ask questions. Find someone doing what you are interested in! Be curious!

— Katherine Johnson