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.
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Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child.
Standardization of our educational systems is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up.
It is imperative to change the way we look at education. We should invest in the foundation of school readiness from birth to age 5.
The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.
Every child should have the opportunity to receive a quality education.
We have every resource necessary to provide access to education for every child on the planet; we just need to commit to enabling it.
I had been very focused on the issue of education disparities in our country, and literally, by the time kids are just nine years old, in low-income communities, they're already three or four grade levels behind nine-year-olds in high-income communities.
Every child should be given a strong start to their education.
Education needs to be personalized and flexible, which means education policy needs to originate from our local communities and not from some bureaucrats in Washington, D.C.
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.