Susan Dunn > Quotes

“The rapid accumulation of knowledge has spawned a sense of urgency to master information quickly, perhaps at the expense of building foundational understanding needed for future learning. Quality remains elusive. More and faster have become mistakenly synonymous with better.”
― Susan Dunn, Design Technology: Children's Engineering

“In constantly responding to preconceived ideas, children lose opportunities to demonstrate original thinking, organize concepts, and design formats which capture their intent. Prescribed curriculum, an exclusively predetermined learning agenda, ignores the contexts that are naturally created by childhood. Although some elements of prescription have value in planning curriculum, the notion of the "child's curriculum" has long been buried under layers of national, state, district, and school mandates.”
― Susan Dunn, Design Technology: Children's Engineering

“The dangers of one-man rule—of a president who would seek to “perpetuate himself in office”—could be realized, he wrote, only in “the last stage of corrupted morals and political depravity.” And at that grim point, term limits would be of no consequence.”
― Susan Dunn, 1940: FDR, Willkie, Lindbergh, Hitler: The Election Amid the Storm