Educational Flexibility Quotes

In India, we are forced to choose our specialisation very early, whereas in some other countries, this can be done much later in life. While the British have abandoned this approach, we in India seem to be struggling with the old British system of education.

I mentioned charter schools, and experimenting with our school system, to make it work. I think that's something we really have to pay attention to.

I was home educated but would skip my lessons to go hang out at school.

I've got a golf scholarship for school, so they understand if I'm away. A couple of years ago they called to see why I wasn't at school, and now they're like, 'oh, she's at golf.' Sometimes I'm in class and sometimes the teachers don't realize I'm there. She goes, 'oh, Lydia's absent.' And I'm like 'no, actually, I'm here.'

Too rarely is the individual teacher so free from the dictation of authoritative supervisor, textbook on methods, prescribed course of study, etc., that he can let his mind come to close quarters with the pupil's mind and the subject matter.

It would be so simple to allow children, when tired of sitting, to rise, and when tired of writing, to desist, and then their bones would not be twisted.

This is to inform all the Students that their Attendance at College Orders is hereby dispensed with … and that they are at liberty to return Home or prosecute their Studies elsewhere, as they think proper: And that those who pay particular Attention to their Studies that these as these confused Times will admit, shall then be considered in the same Light and Standing as if they had given the usual Attendance here.

My school in St. Louis is great. They basically created a program where I can do online classes and independent studies when I'm traveling. But then I still get to go home and take classes in a normal school environment.

I was home-schooled 'cause I wanted to be an actor. I would spend all day watching movies, trying to get through calculus.

Because of the flexibility that community colleges afford, many students do not have to choose between an education and fulfilling other responsibilities - they can do both.

The foundations of any subject may be taught to anybody at any age in some form.

I think that any important educational goal can be realized via several routes.

No two children learn in the same way. While we might agree that every American eight-year-old should be able to read and multiply, beyond those basics, there are few reasons to make every student follow the same path.

Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught.

I would come back to public school for usually about half the year. It was actually better for me to be out of school a lot, because I was two years younger than everybody, which is a bad situation, socially.

I don't think that it is necessary to rethink curricular goals. But it is certainly worth thinking about whether these goals can be reached in multiple ways.

I'm actually graduating early. I got a lot of work done already. Being home schooled, I have had a lot of tutors help me.

Charter laws do something really important. They give educators the freedom and flexibility that they need to attain results. But we also have to invest a lot in the leadership pipeline to take advantage of that freedom and flexibility.

Kids need to be structured in some way, but you don't want to force something down their throats that they have no interest in.

My son traveled the world with me on every tour. He wasn't a lover of school, so it was easy with him. I had a tutor on the road, keep him at the same level, so when he'd pop back home he'd go right back in.