Education reform Quotes · Page 4

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

— Mark McKinnon

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

— Enrique Pena Nieto

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

— Ivan Sutherland

My own view is that the general education curriculum that a college picks has to be appropriate for the kind of student…

— Louis Menand

Whether we're talking about race or gender or class, popular culture is where the pedagogy is, it's where the learning is.

— Bell Hooks

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

— Lilian Katz

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

— Katie Salen

I definitely believe that BSL should be taught on the curriculum in schools.

— Alex Greenwood

Computer science needs to be part of the core curriculum - like algebra, biology, physics, or chemistry. We need all schools to…

— Brad Feld

Though knowledge itself increasingly ignores boundaries between fields, professors are apt to organize their pedagogy around the methods and history of their…

— Steven Pinker

“But if we get education right... it would acknowledge that the path to true learning begins nowhere else but in delight, and…

— Philip Pullman

No pedagogy which is truly liberating can remain distant from the oppressed by treating them as unfortunates and by presenting for their…

— Paulo Freire

“No matter how perfect your curriculum plan looks in September, in June you may look back and realize that the actual school…

— Alicia Kazsuk

And out of each (schoolhouse) is vomited the standard product of the New Pedagogy - an endless procession of adolescents who have…

— Henry Louis Mencken

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is…

— Carl Jung

Many expanded-time schools have generated extraordinary results. In some cases, they have completely closed the achievement gap, all while installing curricula with…

— Chris Gabrieli

“As inequality has grown, as its negative consequences have become harder and harder to ignore, our response has been to put more…

— Christopher Hayes

After the privatization of public education everyone will get to choose a school that reflects only your own social values. No need…

— David A. Strauss

Pedagogy is not about training, it is about critically educating people to be self reflective, capable of critically address their relationship with…

— Henry Giroux

The pedagogy of authoritarianism is alive and well in the United States, and its repression of public memory takes place not only…

— Henry Giroux

How can the oppressed, as divided, unauthentic beings, participate in developing the pedagogy of their liberation? Only as they discover themselves to…

— Paulo Freire

Most teachers have little control over school policy or curriculum or choice of texts or special placement of students, but most have…

— Tracy Kidder

“Architectural education is notably under-theorised as an underlying discipline, though is clearly intensely theorised as a set of surface actions. It has…

— Tatjiana Schneider Nishat Awan Jeremy Till

Imprisoning philosophy within the professionalizations and specializations of an institutionalized curriculum, after the manner of our contemporary European and North American culture,…

— Anonymous

“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

“Our initial thinking about the keys to educational reform was wrong. The variables were deeply emotional and cultural.”

— David Edward Goldberg

Those outside of autism need to understand this is an epidemic and we need more government funding, insurance coverage and education reform.

— Jenny McCarthy

Part of our pedagogy is, you report on what's going on in your neighborhood and your city.

— Jamila Woods

It is inappropriate (to allow parents) to design the curriculum and to run the school.

— Rod Paige

The sex curriculum will be essentially by taught by the local gay community.

— Michele Bachmann

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

— Carol Ann Tomlinson

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

— Karen Elliott House

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

— Henry Johnson Jr

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

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

— Hyman Bass

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

— Montessori Maria

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

— Terry Marselle

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

— Alfie Kohn

There's a lot of feeling that the school curriculum has been bare-bones, just drill and, again, no art, music, and so on…

— John Merrow

“If practice makes you perfect shouldn't good behavior be added to the curriculum”

— Cornelia "Connie D" DeDona