Quotes about Curriculum

Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard-you never know how many friends the dead have until you try to move them!

We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.

Unlike other countries, the United States is more an idea than a place, ethnicity, or race. Unfortunately, most American young people today cannot answer, What is America for? What is it about? Why was it founded? Why is it different? They can't answer these questions because they haven't been taught an answer.

The things taught in schools are not an education but the means of an education.

The SSN Institute will be expanded in areas such as liberal arts, social sciences, natural sciences, communications.

Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal its horrors. They indoctrinate children with hatred. I would teach peace rather than war, love rather than hate.

The theory-practice dichotomy that still bedevils many a theological curriculum serves neither seminary nor church. There is a debilitating dichotomy between what Christians believe (doctrine) and how they live their lives (discipleship).

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

There's more time spent on teaching kids about recycling than on character development in the American schools.

I have incredible respect for customers and peers - my curriculum is very strong because I was taught by my clients' reactions to my work.

No child under the age of fifteen should receive instruction in subjects which may possibly be the vehicle of serious error, such as philosophy, religion, or any other branch of knowledge where it is necessary to take large views; because wrong notions imbibed early can seldom be rooted out, and of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to arrive at maturity.

When I teach the formal curriculum, I have the chance to think about it ahead of time. I can rehearse it. I can illustrate it with self-deprecating humor and humble-sounding personal disclosure. I can try to make it comes out just right.