Customized Education Quotes

The answer is not to standardize education, but to personalize and customize it to the needs of each child and community. There is no alternative. There never was.

College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books.

I believe in teaching just a few students, as teaching requires a constant alert observation on each individual in order to establish a direct relationship. A good teacher cannot be fixed in a routine, and many are just that. During teaching, each moment requires a sensitive mind that is constantly changing and constantly adapting.

The ancient universities was not as based on how many credit hours you're taking and whether you've completed your credit hours. The ancient universities were much more interested in customized, personalized learning... Where you have a mentor and where you're learning at your own pace.

We should also give students more flexibility in the courses they take in high school to prepare them for whatever their goals may be, without sacrificing our rigorous academic standards.

The trend of offering individualized education plans, curricula, and lessons is going to help students tremendously. “Teaching to the middle” is one of the saddest concepts I've ever heard about.

Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child.

There will be no more one-size-fits-all. Education will respond to you.

Studying music, everyone sort of has their own style - it's not like everyone's going for the same part.

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.