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Real education is about genuine understanding and the ability to figure things out on your own; not about making sure every 7th grader has memorized all the facts some bureaucrats have put in the 7th grade curriculum.

~Aaron Swartz

Topics: Ability About All The Facts Bureaucrats Curriculum Education Every Facts Figure Genuine Grade Making Out Own Put Real Some Sure Things Understanding Your

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There are many challenges in the global education ecosystem: from top-down systemic issues in how educational services are organized and delivered, to bottom-up issues of curriculum effectiveness, accountability, and human resource allocation.

~Adam Braun

Topics: Accountability Allocation Challenges Curriculum Delivered Ecosystem Education Educational Effectiveness Global How Human Issues Many Organized Resource Services

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I really am at a place where I think we need to feed every child at school for free and feed them a real school lunch that's sustainable and nutritious and delicious. It needs to be part of the curriculum of the school in the same way that physical education was part of the curriculum, and all children participated.

~Alice Waters

Topics: Am Child Children Curriculum Delicious Education Every Feed Free Lunch Need Needs Part Physical Physical Education Place Real Really Same School Sustainable Them Think Way Where I Think

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Create a garden; bring children to farms for field trips. I think it's important that parents and teachers get together to do one or two things they can accomplish well - a teaching garden, connecting with farms nearby, weave food into the curriculum.

~Alice Waters

Topics: Accomplish Bring Children Connecting Create Curriculum Farms Field Food Garden Get Get Together Important Nearby One Or Two Parents Teachers Teaching Things Think Together Trips Two Weave Well I Think

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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

Topics: About Become Children Could Course Curriculum Eat Ecology Free Imagine Need Part School Teaches Would

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The curriculum of the school did not neglect India's cultural, analytical and scientific heritage, but was very involved also with the rest of the world.

~Amartya Sen

Topics: Also Analytical Cultural Curriculum Did Heritage India Involved Neglect Rest School Scientific Very World

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I do believe that when your child does poorly on a test, your first step should not necessarily be to attack the teacher or the school's curriculum. It should be to look at the idea that, maybe, the child didn't work hard enough.

~Amy Chua

Topics: Attack Believe Child Curriculum Does Enough First First Step Hard Idea Look Maybe Necessarily Poorly School Should Step Teacher Test Work Work Hard Your Your Child

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The false pride of perennial celebration, of wearing flag lapel pins while betraying the values that the flag stands for, is like the self-esteem curriculum for toddlers, where everything is praised and no achievement ultimately has meaning.

~Anne-Marie Slaughter

Topics: Achievement Betraying Celebration Curriculum Everything False Flag Like Meaning Perennial Pins Praised Pride Self-Esteem Stands Ultimately Values Wearing Where While

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I'm not entirely sure why I write about family, but I do know that it hasn't stopped interesting me. You meet and leave other people at different stages of your evolution, whereas family is made up of people who are constant links in your life, who know you over the course of time and have your complete curriculum vitae in their heads.

~Antonya Nelson

Topics: About Complete Constant Course Curriculum Different Different Stages Entirely Evolution Family Heads Interesting Know Leave Life Links Made Me Meet Other Over People Stages Stopped Sure Time Up Whereas Who Why Write You Your I Write

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I dropped out of school, but I didn't drop out of life. I would leave the house each morning and go to the main branch of the Carnegie Library in Oakland where they had all the books in the world... I felt suddenly liberated from the constraints of a pre-arranged curriculum that labored through one book in eight months.

~August Wilson

Topics: Book Books Branch Carnegie Constraints Curriculum Drop Dropped Each Each Morning Eight Felt Go Had House Leave Liberated Library Life Main Months Morning Oakland One Book Out School Suddenly Through Where World Would

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