2. "If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our
children of tomorrow."
John Dewey
3. "Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they
were born in another time."
Chinese Proverb
4. "The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot
read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and
relearn."
Alvin Toffler
5. "There can be infinite uses of the computer and of new age
technology, but if the teachers themselves are not able to bring it
into the classroom and make it work, then it fails."
Nancy Kassebaum, U.S. Senator
6. Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a
fire.
William Butler Yeats
7. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into
windows.
Sydney J. Harris
8. What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone
monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
Percicles
9. "It is important to remember that educational software, like
textbooks, is only one tool in the learning process. Neither can be
a substitute for well-trained teachers, leadership, and parental
involvement."
Keith Krueger, CEO of CoSN
10. "Teachers need to integrate technology seamlessly into the
curriculum instead of viewing it as an add-on, an afterthought, or
an event."
Heidi-Hayes Jacobs, Educational Consultant
11. The principle goal of education is to create men and woman who
are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other
generations have done'.
Jean Piaget
12. Much education today is monumentally ineffective.All too often
we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching
them to grow their own plants.
John W. Gardner
13. An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or
even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between
what you know and what you don't.
Anatole France
14. The great aim of education is not knowledge, but action.
Herbert Spencer
15. You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it
within himself.
Galileo Galilei
16. Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to
be.
David Thornburg
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29. 30. Core Subjects and 21st Century Themes
Mastery of core subjects and 21st century themes is essential to
student success. Core subjectsinclude English, reading or language
arts, world languages, arts, mathematics, economics, science,
geography,history, government and civics.In addition, schools must
promote an understanding of academic content at much higher levels
by weaving 21st century interdisciplinary themes into core
subjects:
31. Financial, Economic, Business and Entrepreneurial Literacy
32. Civic Literacy 33. Health Literacy 34. Environmental
Literacy
