Able Quote by John Taylor Gatto

Educators are still spending way too much time trying to control what kids learn, bending the content to their own purposes, hoping beyond hope…

— Daniel Greenberg

“Curriculum must be improved in order to meet the needs of all our students. Our schools cannot continue to exist or be treated as…

— Elena Aguilar

“Both children and adults acquire knowledge from active participation in holistic, complex, meaningful environments organized around long-term goals. Today's school programs could hardly have…

— Sylvia Farnham-Diggory

The content of the curriculum should never exclude the realities of the very students who must intellectually wrestle with it. When students study all…

— Johnnetta B. Cole

Build your schools around concepts, not academic subjects: core concepts such as awareness, honesty, responsibility, freedom and diversity in oneness. Teach your children these…

— Neale Donald Walsch

The concept of an education centered upon the care of the living being alters all previous ideas. Resting no longer on a curriculum, or…

— Maria Montessori

We as educators need to reconsider our roles in students' lives, to think of ourselves as connectors first and content experts second.

— Will Richardson

Education isn't play--and it can't be made to look like play. It is hard, hard work. But it can be made interesting work.

— Thomas A. Edison

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

— Lilian Katz

In order to arrive to a more realistic view of society, it must be recognized that there are individual differences that cannot be eradicated…

— Carl Eckart

Much of education can and should take place in schools and other formally designated community institutions. But the world beyond the schoolhouse is crucial…

— Howard Gardner

We have to stop delivering the curriculum to kids. We have to start discovering it with them.

— Will Richardson