Features Of Curriculum Quotes

The national curriculum for the Swedish preschool is twenty pages long and goes on at length about things like fostering respect for one another, human rights, and democratic values, as well as a lifelong desire to learn. The document's word choices are a pretty good clue to what Swedish society wants and expects from toddlers and preschoolers. The curriculum features the word "play" thirteen times, "language" twelve times, "nature" six times, and "math" five times. But there is not a single mention of "literacy" or "writing." Instead, two of the most frequently used words are "learning" (with forty-eight appearances) and "development" (forty-seven).

The other Scandinavian countries have similar early childhood education traditions. In Finland, formal teaching of reading doesn't start until the child begins first grade, at age seven, and in the Finnish equivalent of kindergarten, which children enroll in the year they turn six, teachers will only teach reading if a child is showing an interest in it. Despite this lack of emphasis on early literacy, Finland is considered the most literate country in the world, with Norway coming in second, and Iceland, Denmark, and Sweden rounding out the top five, according to a 2016 study by Central Connecticut State University. John Miller, who conducted the study, noted that the five Nordic countries scored so well because "their monolithic culture values reading. ~ Linda Åkeson McGurk

A bad curriculum well taught is invariably a better experience for students than a good curriculum badly taught: pedagogy trumps curriculum. Or more precisely, pedagogy is curriculum, because what matters is how things are taught, rather than what is taught. ~ Dylan Wiliam

School systems should base their curriculum not on the idea of separate subjects, but on the much more fertile idea of disciplines ... which makes possible a fluid and dynamic curriculum that is interdisciplinary. ~ Ken Robinson

School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned. I teach school and win awards doing it. I should know. ~ John Taylor Gatto

To be clear, we [the Department of Education] want curriculum to be driven by the local level. We are by law prohibited from directing curriculum. We don't have a curriculum department. ~ Arne Duncan

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

College just didn't even have computers for an under-curriculum when I started college. ~ Steve Wozniak

The arts' position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young what adults believe is important. ~ Elliot W. Eisner

Everybody is unique. Compare not yourself with anybody else lest you spoil God's curriculum. ~ Baal Shem Tov

There's no reason why you can't deliver a grammar-school curriculum to an all-ability intake. ~ Toby Young

In America, we have 19th century school conditions and a curriculum that prepares our kids for the 1990s. ~ Heidi Hayes Jacobs

We're not a vocational school. If someone wants to get a high-paying job, I would hope that there are easier ways to do it than working through a formal computer science curriculum. ~ Philip Greenspun

Acceleration means studying material that is part of the standard curriculum for older students. Enrichment involves learning information that falls outside the usual curriculum - say, ~ Scientific American

The Common Curriculum can easily become the karaoke curriculum, where everyone just follows the bouncing ball of the script. ~ Andy Hargreaves

The art establishment has turned away from the old curriculum which puts beauty and craft at the top of the agenda. ~ Roger Scruton

It costs the same to send a person to prison or to Harvard. The difference is the curriculum. ~ Paul Hawken

The yeshiva where I studied considers itself modern Orthodox, not ultra-Orthodox. We followed a rigorous secular curriculum alongside traditional Talmud and Bible study. ~ Noah Feldman

Polytechnique is a school whose multidisciplinary, very high scientific level curriculum is invaluable. ~ Philippe Perrin

It is easier to move a cemetery than to change a curriculum. ~ Woodrow Wilson

Charter schools are public schools that operate, to a certain extent, outside the system. They have more control over their teachers, curriculum and resources. They also have less money than public schools. ~ Maggie Gallagher

Our second phase was to develop a school curriculum that teaches tolerance, respect for differences, conflict resolution, anger management, and other attributes of peace. ~ Eddie Bernice Johnson

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

Since free men cannot judge for themselves what endangers their freedom if they believe it is never in danger, it is the chief burden of the public school curriculum to persuade children that their liberty is always secure. ~ Walter Karp

I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way. ~ Carol Ann Duffy

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

Education has been a really big part of my life. I went to an all-girls school for most of my life, and the curriculum was definitely at the top of your list. ~ Holland Roden

Outcomes-based qualifications, if seen as a basis for the curriculum, lead almost inexorably to an extreme version of social constructivism which in effect does away with the idea of a curriculum at all. ~ Michael F.D. Young

Financial education needs to become a part of our national curriculum and scoring systems so that it's not just the rich kids that learn about money.. it's all of us. ~ David Bach

As I very much liked to draw and paint as a child, I entered a special art program in high school, which was very much like being in an art school imbedded in a regular high school curriculum. ~ Jerome Isaac Friedman

The motives of these parents vary, many parents don't like the curriculum being taught to their kids, or are wary of the threat of peer pressure or the presence of drugs or violence lurking in too many of our schools today. ~ Ernest Istook

To force a human being to learn according to a set curriculum is a dictatorial act. ~ Muammar Al-Gaddafi

How insightful of Finland to devise a topic-based curriculum in their schools! This means that dicreet "subjects" that are taught may cross-fertilise each other, and the possibilities in this are amazing! ~ Suzy Davies

God's jokes are the soul's curriculum. ~ John Perry Barlow

Natures' curriculum cannot be changed. ~ Martin Lewis Perl

Only in mathematics and physics was I, through self-study, far beyond the school curriculum, and also with regard to philosophy as it was taught in the school curriculum. ~ Albert Einstein

I contend that every woman has the right to feel beautiful, no matter how scrambled her features, or how indifferent her features. ~ Marie Dressler

The concept of an education centered upon the care of the living being alters all previous ideas. Resting no longer on a curriculum, or a timetable, education must conform to the facts of human life. ~ Maria Montessori

The content of the curriculum should never exclude the realities of the very students who must intellectually wrestle with it. When students study all worlds except their own, they are miseducated. ~ Johnnetta B. Cole

Michelangelo indeed could have carved out your features. ~ Bob Dylan

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

I began thinking I would do musical theater because in high school that was really the only sort of curriculum they had as far as getting onstage and doing anything that anybody would see. So that's what I did. ~ Gretchen Mol

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

Every math curriculum in the world is based on the idea of hand-calculating, and most of what you're teaching is how to calculate. And I think the resistance to this is very variable. ~ Conrad Wolfram

Curriculum companies provide more work than is needed. I never finished the complete curriculum when I taught in a classroom or at home. If your race is with your curriculum, learn to pick and choose what to use, and please do not attempt to cover it all or your race will be ongoing and you will be exhausted. Even races require pit stops to refuel. ~ Tamara L. Chilver

Today I know that physical training should have as much place in the curriculum as mental training. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

We need to have a course in school that teaches about ecology and gastronomy. I could imagine that all children could eat at school for free and that the cafeteria would become part of the school's curriculum. ~ Alice Waters

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

I'm not a drug person. I don't like drugs. I went to college in London, so it was kind of the curriculum there. I got it out of my system really young. ~ Lake Bell

The best feature is less features. ~ Kevin Systrom

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

I'm manic-depressive, technically bi-polar II with many borderline features. ~ Kate Braverman

The intuitive, the expressive, the un-measurable, the intensely personal have never found a satisfactory place in the curriculum, in assessment, in the publics esteem. ~ Hedley Beare

We have so much to cover and so little time to cover it. Howard Gardner refers to curriculum coverage as the single greatest enemy of understanding. Think instead about ideas to be discovered. ~ Alfie Kohn

Remedying the deficiencies of seminary curricula is a difficult question because of all kinds of vested political interests long at work in the building of any curriculum. ~ Thomas Oden

A curious observation is the uniform way that committees review curriculum for each field of study. Too often, authorities have a knee-jerk impulse to declare that 'all curriculum areas will be the same.' In fact, real and significant differences exist between fields of study. ~ Heidi Hayes Jacobs

I was never forced to write. At least, I was never forced or even encouraged to write fiction. Creative writing wasn't in the curriculum at my school when I was in sixth grade. ~ Rodman Philbrick

Aside from the straightforwardly visible curriculum, there is the hidden curriculum. This exists in the wider set of beliefs and values pupils acquire because of the way that a school is run and its teaching organized. It is about the behaviour of the teachers, the textbooks chosen, the school rules. ~ Gary Thomas

I don't think I have any bad features. ~ Stacy Keibler

Because I come from that old-school optics environment, I know stuff about depth of field and camera movement and things that are not necessarily a part of the curriculum for people who started on a box and have never done anything that wasn't on a box. ~ John Dykstra

Kids are intimidated by the way science and technology is presented. It's made, frankly, quite boring and it becomes part of a curriculum that chases particularly women and minorities away. ~ Dean Kamen

Intercultural understanding is a key dimension of the Australian Curriculum. The deployment of technology opens up opportunities for global partnerships and collaboration to grow, increasing opportunities for greater understanding between cultures. ~ Susan Mann

Find out for yourself your unique features ~ Sunday Adelaja

I've been writing full-time since about 1984 - mostly magazine features and columns. ~ Mary Roach

Feature shock: cramming too many features into one product - sometimes even unwanted features - creates a product that does not fully resonate with customers and is often overpriced. ~ Madhavan Ramanujam

We need to challenge our own theology, challenge the curriculum of our Bible schools and our seminaries, and ask simple questions. Are we teaching and producing ministers who have the right message? ~ Myles Munroe

Home is the first school for us all, a school with no fixed curriculum, no quality control, no examinations, no teacher training ~ Charles Handy

For truth to tell, dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education: dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with pen- that one must learn how to write ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

The arts teach children to make good judgments about qualitative relationships. Unlike much of the curriculum in which correct answers and rules prevail, in the arts it is judgment rather than rules that prevail. ~ Elliot W. Eisner

But suppose, asks the student of the professor, we follow all your structural rules for writing, what about that something else that brings the book alive? What is the formula for that? The formula for that is not included in the curriculum. ~ Fannie Hurst

I was a good student in the subjects that I wanted to be good in. The curriculum in my section was excellent. ~ Jack Kirby

One thing I hate about school committees today is that they cut arts programs out of the curriculum because they say the arts aren't a way to make a living. ~ Kurt Vonnegut

His features made him look striking, and I wondered if that was actually his personality. ~ Binta Userkaf

Product managers figure out what features are likely to please customers; product designers then figure out how those features should look and feel. ~ Eric Ries

But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example. ~ Rebecca West

In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum. ~ Michel De Montaigne

MindSparks has produced some of the best materials on the market for teaching students how to read and write history with intellectual integrity and depth. Rarely have I come across curriculum so useful in helping students become literate, thinking citizens. Bravo. ~ Sam Wineburg

Television, cable, features are always out there. ~ Kyle Chandler

I don't believe the federal government should be involved in the creation of standards directly or indirectly, the creation of curriculum or content. It is clearly a state responsibility. ~ Jeb Bush

Developing fewer features allows you to conserve development resources and spend more time refining those features that users really need. Fewer features mean fewer things to confuse users, less risk of user errors, less description and documentation, and therefore simpler Help content. Removing any one feature automatically increases the usability of the remaining ones. ~ Jakob Nielsen

The point of Facebook isn't the features, it's the people. ~ Mark Zuckerberg

There has been so much recent talk of progress in the areas of curriculum innovation and textbook revision that few people outside the field of teaching understand how bad most of our elementary school materials still are. ~ Jonathan Kozol

IF" - I lie I am going to add the best features... the peoplea around = features will be taken to build the best character, then I am going to stick on the lie. This is the thingy which helps us to get out of... ~ Deyth Banger

I'm really tall - almost six feet - and my features tend to be extreme, especially on TV. ~ Missi Pyle

At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features. ~ Roman Jakobson

They erase my face with a layer of pale makeup and draw my features back out. ~ Suzanne Collins

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions. ~ Pablo Picasso

Unconsciously, I think I watch for a look, an expression, features or nostalgia that can summarize or more accurately reveal life. ~ Steve McCurry

I have found that educators yearn to be told something like this: There will be no more initiatives - at least for a time. Instead, we will focus only on what will have an immediate and dramatic impact on learning in your classrooms: ensuring the implementation of a common, content-rich curriculum; good lessons; and plenty of meaningful literacy activities (such as close reading, writing, and discussion) across the curriculum. ~ Mike Schmoker

He was one of those who are not born handsome, but develop charming features with age by continuously engaging their brains with intelligent thoughts. ~ Pawan Mishra

Book values have some good and some bad features. ~ Walter Schloss

So many features at Sundance seemed to be powered more on the director's need to be a director than any particular story. ~ Jill Soloway

Beneath the skin, beyond the differing features and into the true heart of being, fundamentally, we are more alike, my friend, than we are unalike. ~ Maya Angelou

Permission marketing turns strangers into friends and friends into loyal customers. It's not just about entertainment - it's about education. Permission marketing is curriculum marketing. ~ Seth Godin

With proper design, the features come cheaply. This approach is arduous, but continues to succeed. ~ Dennis Ritchie

Men of action usually win - that is one of their distinctive features. ~ Napoleon Hill

Make an effort to collect the good features from many beautiful faces. ~ Leonardo Da Vinci

Well, in features, and in writing especially, it's often the style of the writer comes in. ~ Kurt Loder

Learn not to add too many features right away, and get the core idea built and tested. ~ Leah Culver

Each reader discovers for himself that, with respect to the simpler features of nature, succeeding poets have done little else than copy his similes. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Sherlock : You do yourself an injustice. The features are given to man as the means by which he shall express his emotions, and yours are faithful servants.

Watson : Do you mean to say that you read my train of thoughts from my features?

Sherlock : Your features, and especially your eyes. Perhaps you cannot yourself recall how you reverie commenced? ~ Arthur Conan Doyle