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| 1 | A school curriculum should include a common body of information that all students should know. |
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| 2 | The school curriculum should focus on the great ideas that have survived through time. |
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| 3 | The gap between the real world and schools should be bridge through field trips, internships, and adult mentors. |
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| 4 | Schools should prepare students for analyzing and solving the social problems they will face beyond the classroom. |
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| 5 | Each student should determine his or her individual curriculum, and teachers should guide and help them. |
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| 6 | Students should not be promoted from one grade to the next until they have read and mastered certain key material. |
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| 7 | Schools, above all, should develop students' abilities to think deeply, analytically, and creatively, rather than focus on transient concerns like social skills and current trends. |
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| 8 | Whether inside or outside the classroom, teachers must stress the relevance of what students are learning to real and current events. |
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| 9 | Education should enable students to recognize injustices in society, and schools should promote projects to redress social inequities. |
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| 10 | Students who do not want to study much should not be required to do so. |
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| 11 | Teachers and schools should emphasize academic rigor, discipline, hard work, and respect authority. |
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| 12 | Education is not primarily about workers and the world economic competition; learning should be appreciated for its own sake, and students should enjoy reading, learning, and discussing intriguing ideas. |
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| 13 | The school curriculum should be designed by teachers to respond to the experiences and needs of students. |
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| 14 | Schools should promote positive group relationships by teaching about different ethnic and racial groups. |
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| 15 | The purpose of school is to help students understand themselves, appreciate their distinctive talents and insights, and find their own unique place in the world. |
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| 16 | For the United States to be competitive economically in the world marketplace, schools must bolster their academic requirements in order to train more competent workers. |
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| 17 | Teachers ought to teach from the classics, because important insights related to many of today's challenges and concerns are found in these Great Books. |
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| 18 | Since students learn effectively through social interaction, schools should plan for substantial social interaction in their curricula. |
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| 19 | Students should be taught how to be politically literate, and learn how to improve the quality of life for all people. |
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| 20 | The central role of the school is to provide students with options and choices. The student must decide what and how to learn. |
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| 21 | Schools must provide students with a firm grasp of basic facts regarding the books, people, and events that have shaped the nation's heritage. |
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| 22 | The teacher's main goal is to help students unlock the insights learned over time, so they can gain wisdom from the great thinkers of the past. |
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| 23 | Students should be active participants in the learning process, involved in democratic class decision making and reflective thinking. |
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| 24 | Teaching should mean more than simply transmitting Great Books, which are replete with biases and prejudices. Rather, schools need to identify a new list of Great Books more appropriate for today's world, and prepare students to create a better society than their ancestors did. |
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| 25 | Effective teachers help students to discover and develop their personal values, even when those values conflict with traditional ones. |
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| 26 | Teachers should help students constantly reexamine their beliefs. In history, for example, students should learn about those who have been historically omitted: the poor, the non-European, women, and people of color. |
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| 27 | Frequent objective testing is the best way to determine what students know. Rewarding students when they learn, even when they learn small things, is the key to successful teaching. |
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| 28 | Education should be a responsibility of the family and community rather than delegated to formal and impersonal institutions, such as schools. |
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