Learning Objectives Quotes

It's an extension of what I do also as part of making my living - I go into schools and work with kids on writing, and I do assembly programs often. Each one is different because each school has different requirements.

Something I've really enjoyed learning more about is course design.

Standardized testing is at cross purposes with many of the most important purposes of public education. It doesn't measure big-picture learning, critical thinking, perseverance, problem solving, creativity or curiosity, yet those are the qualities great teaching brings out in a student.

Appropriate assessments are a crucial part of effectively educating students. But they only measure a narrow segment of what kids need to learn.

Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking.

I certainly, to this day, believe I did everything I needed to do to get my degree.

Education has rules and parameters. Women outperform men when the parameters are clear.

Character is the aim of true education; and science, history, and literature are but means used to accomplish this desired end.

It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.

Training teaches how. Education teaches why.

Education standards need to be set at the state level. High standards are an important way to ensure that the education system we are funding is actually working and producing, at a minimum, what we would expect it to.

Any good teacher should become acquainted with relevant technologies. But the technologies should not dictate an education goal. Rather, the teacher (or parent or student or policy maker) should ask: can technology help to achieve this goal, and which technologies are most likely to be helpful?

No longer can we afford to stuff the brains of the young with facts. The time is too short, the necessity for results too pressing. The new education must be based on the elimination of facts except as they illustrate principles. How to use facts, not how to accumulate them, is the purpose of true education.

Accountability makes no sense when it undermines the larger goals of education.

All four majors are definitely a priority.

I think it's harder to learn a language without having a goal.

The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.

People often ask me whether I plan to apply for a job after an MBA, but I tell them it is just to gain knowledge.

The real question, therefore, is not whether students should be taught to think critically and self-reflectively, but instead what they should be thinking critically about.

Usually when you ask somebody in college why they are there, they'll tell you it's to get an education. The truth of it is, they are there to get the degree so that they can get ahead in the rat race. Too many college radicals are two-timing punks. The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.

Businesses need to define what they need so training providers can offer up the right training.

I do not think that the educational program of our schools should be determined by what the community thinks it needs.

Older students know what they want, which is good.

That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.

The function of a guideline isn't to tell you what kids have actually experienced; it's to provide goals.