Donovan L. Graham Quotes

#1. School curriculum, learning activities--all educational pursuits--should be characterized by and should lead to a sense and experience of wholeness. (p25)

Donovan L. Graham

#2. The educational process must again provide the opportunity for students to make choices and live with the consequences of these choices. Teaching is not simply telling people what to believe and do.

Donovan L. Graham

#3. God does not hold our environment accountable for our behavior; he holds us accountable. (p79)

Donovan L. Graham

#4. the process through which any concept or subject (content) is taught becomes a part of the content. (p19)

Donovan L. Graham

#5. Our students sometimes use their creativity to do wrong things, and we therefore conclude that we must keep them from being creative. But evil cannot be blamed on creativity. (p31)

Donovan L. Graham

#6. While teachers often complain that their students seem to do very little thinking, teachers who simply follow the manual should understand that they are actually contributing to the problem. Students seldom learn to think under the tutelage of teachers who do not think either.

Donovan L. Graham