School Curriculum Quotes

“[A]dults today have been enculturated by a society where the language used, the built environment, policy-making, healthcare, school curriculums, afterschool programs, mental health counseling, libraries, and parenting can all invalidate the worth, depth, ideas, knowledge, actions, and opinions of children and youth.”
― Adam F.C. Fletcher, Democracy Deficit Disorder: Learning Democracy with Young People

“Even if you get a thousand professional diplomas from a thousand universities, you will not be as advanced as someone who has read a thousand books on different subjects outside the school curriculum!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“We will not be replacing Miss Strife,' Miss Plazenby observed, gazing at names, subjects and points where there might be an occasional overlap or redundancy. 'Our games mistress is quite capable of directing the ferocity of this year's intake into the relevant channels. I am thinking more of the higher orders of philosophic thought, the play of words, the bedevilment of the mind through cunning argument. I fear there will be a greater need for that this coming year.'

'I do not think we have ever secured the services of insurance sellers in any of our first year modules before. Have you a particular company in mind?'

'Though fending off the wiles of advertising and small-printology is a useful skill,' Miss Plazenby admitted, 'I was thinking more along the lines of subtlety.'

'The smiling backstabber?'

'Yes. Exactly that. Our girls need to understand that here in Frangea there are people who will say one thing, mean another and then do a third, all in the most pleasant way possible, as if it were a favour.'

'That sounds a little like Sophistic Methodology,' her assistant said, trying to raise an eyebrow while frowning at the same time and finding it beyond her face scrunching skills. (Chapter 6)”
― Martyn X Brown, The Lonely Ghost