Education reform Quotes

Immerse yourself in the curriculum of grace.

— Max Lucado

“A substandard education will always result in a substandard nation.”

— Aubrey Priest

It's sad that arts are not part of the curriculum across the nation.

— Rosie Perez

Repetition is the mother of pedagogy

— Dennis Prager

The government should include menstrual hygiene in the curriculum.

— Arunachalam Muruganantham

“Efficiency and economy simply do not make good pedagogy.”

— Paul Lockhart

God's jokes are the soul's curriculum.

— John Perry Barlow

Natures' curriculum cannot be changed.

— Martin Lewis Perl

“How Common Core pedagogy directly contradicts well researched tenets on how cognition works.”

— Terry Marselle

“Morphological anthropology applied to the physical study of children, is also a strong element in the growth of the new pedagogy.”

— Montessori Maria

To control students is to force them to accommodate to a preestablished curriculum.

— Alfie Kohn

“Tellingly, the entire subject of philosophy, in which questions would be the core of a curriculum, is banned in Saudi.”

— Karen Elliott House

Pedagogy, like language itself, can either liberate or imprison ideas, inspire of suffocate constructive thinking.

— Hyman Bass

It's time for the US to widen its circle of learning, not to circle its wagons against hostile ideas in education reform.

— Andy Hargreaves

“If the next man's education level makes you feel inferior, that's an inferiority complex. Inferiority starts with self-esteem.”

— Henry Johnson Jr

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

— Carol Ann Tomlinson

Everybody, no matter what vocation they're looking at, should add music as an essential to their curriculum. Music can be a very…

— Quincy Jones

To be clear, we the Department of Education want curriculum to be driven by the local level. We are by law prohibited…

— Arne Duncan

I wanted to really just understand... how could a whole generation of children who were just children at the time - boys…

— Christine Leunens

When I moved to Seattle, oftentimes I was the only Native kid in my class. So would be put on the spot,…

— Lily Gladstone

“Outcomes-based qualifications, if seen as a basis for the curriculum, lead almost inexorably to an extreme version of social constructivism which in…

— Michael F.D. Young

Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

I remember, growing up as a kid, history class was very washed-over. They didn't really get into the gritty bits of slavery.…

— Aldis Hodge

“The paradox of education reform is this: The levers that are good at changing schools are often least associated with improving student…

— Tony Frontier

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

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

— Carl Rogers

When we talk about politicization, when we talk about book banning, when we talk about Black history curriculum being picked apart -…

— Miguel Cardona

“I’d been looking around the world for clues as to what other countries were doing right, but the important distinctions were not…

— Amanda Ripley

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

— Deborah Kenny

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

— Bret Weinstein

I combine aspects of fashion, comedy, sculpture, video, painting all kind of in one multimedia sort of curriculum. New York is what…

— Chloe Wise

We the undersigned, intend to establish an instruction and training institution which differs from the common elementary schools principally in that it…

— C. F. W. Walther

“Service members will only stay on active duty if they can provide for their families—and DOD schools provide a world-class education that…

— Tucker Elliot

“Develop flourishing schools … The purpose of the education system should be to create capable and emotionally well-rounded young people who are…

— Nic Marks

“Over recent years, [there's been] a strong tendency to require assessment of children and teachers so that [teachers] have to teach to…

— Noam Chomsky

I've come to believe that genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us... I began to wonder,…

— John Taylor Gatto

“As educators, we can’t sit on the sidelines watching it happen. We have to recognize that students’ use of technology is stronger…

— Lynne Schrum

“Scholars have argued that without humanism the Reformation could not have succeeded, and it is certainly difficult to imagine the Reformation occurring…

— Steven Ozment

“Our schools today are probably further away from self-management than most other types of organizations. We have turned schools, almost everywhere, into…

— Frederic Laloux

“What is the school like? First, let me set the stage. The school enrolls students from the age of 4 up. No…

— Russell L. Ackoff