This document contains short quotes from several educators and philosophers throughout history about curriculum and education, including Horace Mann, John Dewey, Rudolf Steiner, Lev Vygotsky, Jean Piaget, A.S. Neill, and Paulo Freire. The quotes discuss topics such as the role of schools in a republic, the aim of education being self-control, understanding human nature as a teacher, intelligence, freedom reducing hate, and the need for dialogue to change structures.

1. Curriculum Verbatim:
Educators, Philosophers & Curriculum
By Bronwen Abbattista
Goddard EDU Program, Competency I
August 29, 2012

7. 1936
Schoolhouses are
the republican line
Of fortifications.
- Horace Mann

8. The ideal aim of education
is creation of
power
of self-control.
- John Dewey

9. To be a teacher
and educator one must
work with what is taking place
in the depths of human
nature.
- Rudolf Steiner

10. 1936
We become ourselves through others.
- Lev Vygotsky

11. 1934
Intelligence
is what you use
when you don’t
know
what to do.
- Jean Piaget

12. Children who are free have much
less hate to express than those
who are downtrodden.
- A. S. Neill

13. We know how to
find pearls in
the shells of
oysters, gold in
the mountains
and coal in the
bowels of the
earth, but we
are unaware of
the spiritual

14. IF THE
DOES
STRUCT
DIAL
NOT
URE
THE
PERMIT
CHA
OGU
STRUCTURE
- Paulo Freire