“It still amazes me that we insist on teaching algebra to all students when only about 20 percent will ever use it and fail to teach anything about parenting when the vast majority of our students will become parents.” SchoolEducationTeachingParentingCurriculum Book:Peace Education: How We Come to Love and Hate War Source: Peace Education: How We Come to Love and Hate War
“We will not find the solution to problems of violence, alienation, ignorance, and unhappiness in increasing our security, imposing more tests, punishing schools for their failure to produce 100 percent proficiency, or demanding that teachers be knowledgeable in the subjects they teach. Instead, we must allow teachers and students to interact as whole persons, and we must develop policies that treat the school as a whole community.” PersonsWholeProblemSchoolCommunityTeachTeacherViolenceSubjectsSecurityPolicyStudentsProduceIgnoranceSolutionsPercentTestsTreatsUnhappinessAlienationImposingKnowledgeableSolution To A ProblemTeacher And StudentWhole PersonProficiency Author:Nel Noddings
