44 Quotes About Curriculum

I think they assign things to students which are way over their heads, which destroy your love of reading, rather than leading you to it. I don't understand that. Gosh.

I hope, wherever we are, we start to decolonize knowledge production through rekindling that deep and strong spark between the heart and the mind; through understanding that the path to objectivity goes through the painful corridors of subjectivity.

The ocean of knowledge is profound and the deeper you dive, the more insight you will gain from it.

I've realised that the most diverse academic disciplines are not really incompatible but are rather harmonious.

Every child should be taught how to think, read and write.

Engaging with children in troublesome thinking is problematic, but important. Ignoring the hard stuff and only engaging in the fluff and fun from curriculum choices is to keep underground issues of social justice and to further silence and compound the inequity

Schools should make ‘common sense’ a course of study.

It still amazes me that we insist on teaching algebra to all students when only about 20 percent will ever use it and fail to teach anything about parenting when the vast majority of our students will become parents.

If a nation reads what is good with a good understanding, it gets a good understanding for a good nation building!