Quotes about Classroom

A Socrates in every classroom. Votes: 7

The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom. Votes: 6

The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it. Votes: 6

The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes. Votes: 6

The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom. Votes: 5

The worst censors are those prohibiting criticism of the theory of evolution in the classroom. Votes: 5

Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies. Votes: 5

Being a Christian, I'm eager to introduce people to Jesus. I just don't think I should do it in the science classroom Votes: 5

Common sense tells us that we should focus our resources to benefit children, teachers and taxpayers by keeping dollars in the classroom. Votes: 5

We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere. Votes: 5

The unions say 'last hired - first fired,', we say hire and fire based on merit. We want the best and brightest in the classroom. Votes: 5

It is commonly agreed that children spend more hours per year watching television than in the classroom, and far less in actual conversation with their parents. Votes: 5

I'm a comedian first. I've learned how to act. I just draw on life experiences and that's how I've learned. I didn't take classes or anything. I don't need no classroom. Votes: 5

Productivity is going to be a critical issue. And it's not just about getting more time for professors in the classroom. It involves reexamining the learning experience and restructuring faculty and the use of faculty time. Votes: 5

Our highly qualified teachers not only work hard, but they care about each and every student that enters their classroom. I thank you, Montana teachers, for your sense of duty and compassion to our precious future generation. Votes: 5

You get on TV and you become more of a star and it makes it real hard to go back to school and sit in a classroom, put your hand up if you have a question or something. Votes: 5

Athletes who take to the classroom naturally or are encouraged to focus on grades should be able to do well in the classroom. I believe the reason you go to college is to get your degree. It's not a minor league or an audition for the pros Votes: 5

A student of life considers the world a classroom. Votes: 4

I'm a teacher still, but with a much larger classroom. Votes: 4

Well-roundedness comes not from sitting in a classroom but from experiencing the larger world. Votes: 4

Helping out in your kid's classroom is a great way to get involved with your child's school. Votes: 4

I have attention deficit disorder, so sitting in a classroom is not the best thing for me. Votes: 4

Years later, nothing makes me more grateful as a parent than my daughters' encounters with classroom wizards. Votes: 4

Everyday classroom teaching is not what children will remember, but how you made a difference in their lives. Votes: 4

In schools with a history of chaos, the teacher who can keep the classroom calm becomes virtually indispensable. Votes: 4

I'm deeply, deeply passionate about creating peace and well-being in the classroom, and well-being as a global nation. Votes: 4

One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population. Votes: 4

Children are already accustomed to a world that moves faster and is more exciting than anything a teacher in front of a classroom can do. Votes: 4

I always had a weird thing with being the last person somewhere... like a movie theater or a classroom. I get a weird sense of anxiety. Votes: 4

I'm not very good in a classroom sort of setting. I never was. I was kind of a clown in high school - got suspended a lot. Votes: 4

I never read a single book as a child. I did not read as a child. I worked on the farm. I had books in the classroom, but that was it. I never read a single book outside of the classroom. Votes: 4

I love the classroom. Votes: 3

The perfect classroom is Paris. Votes: 3

Let students use technologies in the classroom. Votes: 3

Men are born to succeed, not to fail. Votes: 3

Partisan politics has no place in the classroom. Votes: 3

Antireligious bigotry is not confined to the classroom. Votes: 3

The classroom's the last room to get the truth. Votes: 3

Produce results on the mat AND in the classroom. Votes: 3

Home is a child's first and most important classroom. Votes: 3

I think we've got outstanding teaching in Michigan classrooms. Votes: 3

Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s. Votes: 3

A well-managed classroom is a task-oriented and predictable environment. Votes: 3

Nothing worth knowing can ever be taught in a classroom. Votes: 3

It's the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom. Votes: 3

Public education grants secular worldviews an exclusive monopoly in the classroom." Votes: 3

The road to freedom, here and everywhere, begins in the classroom. Votes: 3

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. Votes: 3

Public education grants secular worldviews an exclusive monopoly in the classroom. Votes: 3

Prayer is not learned in a classroom but in the closet. Votes: 3

Some of my favorite memories happened in the 'Boy Meets World' classroom. Votes: 3

Look at your life as your main career and your divine classroom. Votes: 3

Some of my favorite memories happened in the Boy Meets World classroom. Votes: 3

Art in the classroom not only spurs creativity, it also inspires learning. Votes: 3

A total immersion in life offers the best classroom for learning to love. Votes: 3

In life, the classroom is everywhere. The exam comes at the very end. Votes: 3

You've GOT to teach creation science in the classroom. Scientific method demands that. Votes: 3

Lack of homework shows up in the marketplace as well as in the classroom. Votes: 3

In the classroom of hatred we learn pain, but love teaches us to forgive. Votes: 3

If you can create community in a classroom the kids will not drop out Votes: 3

Getting results through people is a skill that cannot be learned in the classroom. Votes: 3

the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person. Votes: 3

I'm living my dream job! My dream job is to be in the classroom. Votes: 3

Baseball is a religion in my classroom. It's a very important part of life, baseball. Votes: 3

Schools ought to teach students to challenge secular ideologies masquerading as science in the classroom. Votes: 3

The kids in our classroom are infinitely more significant than the subject matter we teach. Votes: 3

I feel vulnerable every single time I step into a classroom. I feel completely exposed. Votes: 3

Character is never built in a classroom; it is built in the circumstances of life. Votes: 3

The best classroom of all times was about two car lengths behind Juan Manuel Fangio. Votes: 3

The classroom - not the trench - is the frontier of freedom now and forevermore. Votes: 3

Nature will teach us many lessons if we take the time to visit her classroom. Votes: 3

On my first day teaching my own classroom, I threw up before I entered the building. Votes: 3

If we get the federal government out of the classroom, maybe we'll get God back in. Votes: 3

The best brains of the nation may be found on the last benches of the classroom. Votes: 3

Mathematicians use intuition, conjecture and guesswork all the time except when they are in the classroom. Votes: 3

In science, technology, engineering and mathematics, men far outnumber women in the classroom and the boardroom. Votes: 3

I was sitting in the classroom trying to look intelligent in case the teacher looked at me. Votes: 3

I was always making my friends laugh, but I never wanted the attention of the whole classroom. Votes: 3

Teachers support evaluations based on multiple measures: student growth, classroom observation and feedback from peers and parents. Votes: 3

The Wayne Education Building was the first classroom building that we have done on the Wayne campus. Votes: 3

Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom. Votes: 3

The Compassionate Classroom is a fabulous book! If teachers will read it, they can transform their classrooms. Votes: 3

I'm deeply, deeply passionate about creating peace and well-being in the classroom, and well-being as a global nation. Votes: 3

My days are jam-packed with carpools, classroom assistance, tending to chickens, dogs and seven acres of olive trees! Votes: 3

Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom. Votes: 3

The number one problem in the classroom is not discipline; it is the lack of procedures and routines. Votes: 3

The best way to improve children's performance in the classroom may be to take them out of it. Votes: 3

I learned to listen and listen very well. It helped me athletically and in the classroom as well. Votes: 3

The teachers are trying to build the same culture in the classroom as we're building in the organization. Votes: 3

A country's competitiveness starts not on the factory floor or in the engineering lab. It starts in the classroom. Votes: 3

You cannot afford to confine your studies to the classroom. The universe and all of history is your classroom. Votes: 3

We carry with us habits of thought and taste fostered in some nearly forgotten classroom by a certain teacher. Votes: 3

When you are in my classroom, you get everything from me. But you bloody well better give everything too. Votes: 3

Most of the time, I don't watch classics with anybody. I have to be by myself. That's my classroom. Votes: 3

If you don't have an effective teacher in front of the classroom, you won't change the trajectory for students. Votes: 3

Too many vital education dollars that should be spent in the classroom are bouncing around in the federal bureaucracy. Votes: 3

The most elusive knowledge of all is self-knowledge and it is usually acquired laboriously through experience outside the classroom. Votes: 3

I believe with all my heart that the American classroom teachers are one of our greatest and most heroic treasures. Votes: 3

In an effective classroom students should not only know what they are doing, they should also know why and how. Votes: 3

A Minneapolis, Minnesota high school teacher hung this sign under the clock in her classroom. "Time will pass...Will you?" Votes: 3

We do not need to attend classroom training programs for everything, our observation opens the windows of knowledge around us. Votes: 3

Universities won't survive. The future is outside the traditional campus, outside the traditional classroom. Distance learning is coming on fast. Votes: 3

I avoided as much work as possible in the classroom, but did all the work possible on the ball field. Votes: 3

Don't ever get to the point where you can't be taught because life is a classroom and everyone owns a pen. Votes: 3

Marriage can either be a classroom where people become wiser and better, or a prison where people become resentful; and bitter. Votes: 3

Examples of hostility toward religious values and those who hold them abound... This antireligious bigotry is not confined to the classroom. Votes: 3

Nothing could be more absurd than an experiment in which computers are placed in a classroom where nothing else is changed. Votes: 3

I've seen a big shift, especially in my classroom, with women standing up and demanding respect. That's in every woman, whether 16, 26, 56. Votes: 3

I find teaching - I like it, but I find just walking into the classroom and facing the students very difficult. Votes: 3

Educators remind us that what counts in a classroom is not what the teacher teaches; it’s what the learner learns. Votes: 3

Life is a classroom -- only those who are willing to be lifelong learners will move to the head of the class. Votes: 3

One barrier... is the impoverishment of classroom language, the failure to cultivate a common vocabulary about inquiry, explanation, argument and problem solving. Votes: 3

This planet is a divine school, and daily life a classroom. Our choice of teachers depends on what we need to learn. Votes: 3

Children, for whom suburban life was supposed to make wholesome little Johns and Wendys, became the acid-dropping, classroom-burning hippies of the 1960s. Votes: 3

A student who has excelled in the classroom should have the opportunity to attend college and become a productive, taxpaying member of society. Votes: 3

People go into cartooning because they're shy and they're angry. That's when you're sitting in the back of a classroom drawing the teacher. Votes: 3

I believe that if we want our children to understand the world beyond their classroom, we must bring the world into their classroom. Votes: 3

I grew up in my mom's third grade classroom and always helping her, and I also got a passion for kids that way. Votes: 3

My goal in the classroom was always to make sure they were having so much fun that they didn't realize they were learning. Votes: 3

Another culture can be learned in the classroom for a single term, but it can be felt from a person for a lifetime. Votes: 3

A leader can't make excuses. There has to be quality in everything you do. Off the court, on the court, in the classroom. Votes: 3

We are not perfect. We are here to learn. Earth is one big classroom and God is our heavenly guidance counselor and teacher. Votes: 3

In my fourth grade classroom, I even instituted a government structure, because I was really interested in people having positions and there being law. Votes: 3

When elected, I will make education funding a top priority and I believe we must ensure those dollars reach our children and the classroom Votes: 3

I was terrified of being a teacher. To stand in front of a classroom, the responsibility is boggling. Imagine! Standing in front of people! Votes: 3

I'll never be considered one of the all-time greats; maybe not even one of the all-time goods. But I'm one of the all-time survivors. Votes: 3

I prefer the competitive atmosphere of a classroom setting, like yoga or Pilates. That keeps me going. Although performing on stage is great exercise! Votes: 3

The greatest sin a coach can commit is to allow kids to slide by. This goes for the classroom as well as the court Votes: 3

I realized if you can change a classroom, you can change a community, and if you change enough communities you can change the world. Votes: 3

My obligation is to focus on the priorities of classroom instruction, parental involvement and student safety, targeting student performance and eliminating unnecessary administrative costs. Votes: 3

I spend time in the classroom. I think more of them aren't political science than are political science. I particularly like talking to journalism students. Votes: 3

When you're a kid and you're in a classroom, anybody would die to be hanging out in London or having their sixteenth birthday in Japan. Votes: 3

Schools should look behind classroom doors and determine the factors that contribute to the kinds of interactions between teachers and students that promote student achievement. Votes: 3

I took a Logo programming class in fifth grade. Logo is a language specifically designed for the classroom environment. It was basically doodling through words. Votes: 3

I love teaching. I love working with kids... maybe some day I'll go back to the classroom. I'm not ready to say it'll never happen. Votes: 3

I'm always an entrepreneur, but I'd probably be a teacher. I like teaching kids, whether that's tennis on the courts or history in the classroom. Votes: 3

Economics as currently presented in textbooks and taught in the classroom does not have much to do with business management, and still less with entrepreneurship. Votes: 3

A classroom . People trying to stick me in classrooms was becoming as predictable and annoying as people trying to kill me, but with less-fun results. Votes: 3

Spiritual growth thrives in the midst of our problems, not in their absence. Spiritual growth occurs in the trenches of life, not in the classroom. Votes: 3

Living, just by itself --what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you... Votes: 3

Our educational results lag behind other states, and other nations, but worse still, behind the potential of the kids and the devoted teachers in our classrooms. Votes: 3

Books have been my classroom and my confidant. Books have widened my horizons. Books have comforted me in my hardest times. Books have changed my life. Votes: 3

Teachers say their schools of education did not adequately prepare them for the classroom. They would have welcomed more mentoring and feedback in their early years. Votes: 3

There is nothing better than being in a classroom with really, really brilliant students, and opening up new worlds to them. That's what I love doing. Votes: 3

I always had a weird thing with being the last person somewhere like a movie theater or a classroom. I get a weird sense of anxiety. Votes: 3

Whether it's on the streets of Philadelphia or New York or Chicago or Atlanta or in a classroom in Newtown, Connecticut, people want to be safe. Votes: 3

My teacher said my brain was the size of a pea. He made my life miserable by singling me out in the classroom as a failure. Votes: 3

I didn't think the teachers had the right to tell me what to do. I would just disobey, talk in the classroom, get very bad grades. Votes: 3

I've talked with a lot of teachers, classroom teachers after the Sandy Hook situation, and they say, look, we need to be looking at mental health. Votes: 3

How absurd that our students tuck their cell phones, BlackBerrys, iPads, and iPods into their backpacks when they enter a classroom and pull out a tattered textbook. Votes: 3

The place of the arts in the classroom is essential in encouraging invention, ambition, and an understanding of the importance and pleasures of living an examined life, Votes: 3

Teaching and writing have tended to proceed on parallel lines, but there have been times when there was indeed carry-over from the classroom to the creative work. Votes: 3

I never lose sight of the fact that before I was a writer, I was a teacher. I still am. My classroom's just gotten a little bigger. Votes: 3

I've consistently said, we need to support charter schools. I think it is important to experiment, by looking at how we can reward excellence in the classroom. Votes: 3

What we have done with No Child Left Behind is squeeze the creativity out of the classroom because teachers have begun to just teaching to the test. Votes: 3

Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents. Votes: 3

We've heard from many teachers that they used episodes of Star Trek and concepts of Star Trek in their science classrooms in order to engage the students. Votes: 3

I'm very sensitive. I remember, as a kid at school, if someone in the classroom was sad or angry, it could have a great impact on me. Votes: 3

The idea that you can take smart but inexperienced 25-year-olds who never managed anything and turn them into effective managers via two years of classroom training is ludicrous. Votes: 3

Bringing nature into the classroom can kindle a fascination and passion for the diversity of life on earth and can motivate a sense of responsibility to safeguard it. Votes: 3

I discovered how science is truly a universal language, one that forges new connections among individuals and opens the mind to ideas that go far beyond the classroom. Votes: 3

Instead of being the 'font of all knowledge,' teachers are required to be effective facilitators of student learning both within and outside the classroom at any time. Votes: 3

If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you would probably design something like a classroom. Votes: 3

A classroom atmosphere that promotes reading does not come from the furniture and its placement as much as it comes from the teacher's expectation that students will read. Votes: 3

I am the kind of dude that would go to your seventh grade class and sit at the back of the classroom and stare at all your butts. Votes: 3

The most important thing about a child's education is to have a great teacher in front of the classroom and a lot of choice and accountability with parents. Votes: 3

If religion and churches are truly threats to our liberties, how did those liberties survive, and in such healthy condition, all those years of classroom prayer and Bible-reading? Votes: 3

When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books. Votes: 3

Unexamined wallpaper is classroom practices and institutional policies that are so entrenched in school culture or a teacher's paradigm that their ability to affect student learning is never probed. Votes: 3

Study after study affirms what I saw in the classroom every day as superintendent of Denver Public Schools: Nothing makes a bigger difference for student learning than great teaching. Votes: 3

Parents teach in the toughest school in the world - The School for Making People. You are the board of education, the principal, the classroom teacher, and the janitor ... Votes: 3

You wouldn't tolerate an underperforming surgeon in an operating theatre, or a underperforming midwife at your child's birth. Why is it that we tolerate underperforming teachers in the classroom? Votes: 3

There is incredible potential for digital technology in and beyond the classroom, but it is vital to rethink how learning is organised if we are to reap the rewards. Votes: 3

I am basically the sort of person who has stage-fright teaching. I kind of creep into a classroom. I'm not an anecdote-teller, either, although I often wish I were. Votes: 3

The true face of the unions is not now a man in a hard hat as much as it is a woman in a classroom or in cleaning smocks. Votes: 3

You are either born to be a photographer or not. The art of photography is not something you can learn in the classroom or by watching someone do it. Votes: 3

It's very hard to find good and wholesome, edifying and challenging writing for the students to perform. In my classroom I strive to do that as best as I can. Votes: 3

I started thinking about my relationship with my students; I'm this guy who comes in from book - and movie - land and descends on angel wings into their classroom. Votes: 3

This is form and content and diction and tone and imagination all looking up at the exact same moment: When Molly Tanzer claps once at the front of the classroom. Votes: 3

Skype is kind of amazing - look at Skype in the classroom - those are things that can really excite your organization. That's what has been really great to me. Votes: 3

Everyone has been to school. Everyone has a sense of classroom dynamics and politics, regardless of subject matter. And if you've lived long enough, everyone hits a big life transition. Votes: 3

I did my undergrad at Florida State, got a Bachelor's, and then I got my Masters in Acting at NYU. So I've spent a lot of time in the classroom. Votes: 3

While it was a very interesting period in my life, I was happy to get back to more direct contact with students in the classroom and in my research projects. Votes: 3

Effective managing therefore happens where art , craft, and science meet. But in a classroom of students without managerial experience, these have no place to meet there is nothing to do. Votes: 3

I just can't - I can't exist in normal group situations. A classroom, where you have to sort of jockey for position, compete for attention - I would just withdraw. Votes: 3

In the U.K. there is still work to be done, particularly in schools, stopping the homophobic bullies in the playground and introducing unbiased discussion on gay issues in the classroom. Votes: 3

That's the beauty of education, kids taking lessons out of the classroom and back into their own world where they can positively affect their family, their friends, and their greater community. Votes: 3

I don't think college is for everyone. School is awesome, but for me, I was learning a lot more outside the classroom in the real world than I was in school. Votes: 3

At school, I was the classroom clown - I was always being thrown out for being naughty. Before I left, a teacher called me in and suggested I became an actor. Votes: 3

When I retired from active duty, I still felt that I owed something to my community. That's why I pursued education... I still miss the classroom and recall those days fondly. Votes: 3

A primary reason for my success in the classroom was that I couldn't forget that schooling was changing me and separating me from the life I enjoyed before becoming a student. Votes: 3

One thing I've learned from 35 years in the classroom is that people learn best when they are laughing, when they are emotionally hit, that it's both the brain and the heart. Votes: 3

Half of what you will accomplish in a day will be determined before you leave home. Three quarters of what you achieve will be determined before you enter the classroom door Votes: 3

My classroom is set up to accommodate the different types of assignments students do. Sitting at a single desk the entire class time just doesnt work for this type of class. Votes: 3

There is nothing more valuable than great classroom instruction. But let's stop putting the whole burden on teachers. We also need better parents. Better parents can make every teacher more effective. Votes: 3

The bits I most remember about my school days are those that took place outside the classroom, as we were taken on countless theatre visits and trips to places of interest. Votes: 3

Exposing students to lots of books and positive reading experiences while building a network of other readers who support each other provides students with tools that last beyond the classroom setting. Votes: 3

Some kids, for some reason, it just doesn't click in the classroom as they need it to. We have college coaches talk to them, former high school athletes, motivational speakers, teachers, principals. Votes: 3

Some kids, for some reason, it just doesn't click in the classroom as they need it to. We have college coaches talk to them, former high school athletes, motivational speakers, teachers, principals. Votes: 3

One in three Canadian teens are bullied. That's nearly two million young Canadians who are teased and excluded. Nearly two million who are silenced in the classroom, losing out on their education. Votes: 3

The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving the brain' that a student brings to the classroom. Votes: 3

I don't see a future where we're all taught by robots. The real life, physical experience of being in a classroom and having conversations with knowledgeable people is immeasurably valuable and irreplaceable. Votes: 3

The very first video experience I had was in high school. They brought a black-and-white closed-circuit surveillance camera into the classroom. I will never forget, as a kid, looking at that image. Votes: 3

My first performance was in AP Calculus when they forced me up into the front of the classroom and made me sing a song, which was really scary, but it was fun. Votes: 3

I wanted my students to leave my classroom loving reading and wanting to read more, and if they left my classroom thinking that reading is boring, then I haven't done my job. Votes: 3

One of the many drawbacks of this "I teach what I am" approach is that it stifles classroom discussion. Any disagreement with the professor's expertise comes off as an ad hominem attack. Votes: 3

We can not wait until we have enough trained people willing to work at a teacher's salary and under conditions imposed upon teachers in order to improve what happens in the classroom. Votes: 3

Visit a typical science classroom and you will discover far more than empirical facts being taught. The dominant worldview among scientific intellectuals is evolutionary naturalism, which holds that humans are essentially biochemical machines. Votes: 3

Let us not forget that group of self-taught, outsider artists who never stepped foot in any classroom and cared less about even exhibiting, and yet ended up with an audience of avid admirers. Votes: 3

Teachers who do not take their own education seriously, who do not study, who make little effort to keep abreast of events have no moral authority to coordinate the activities of the classroom. Votes: 3

When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As a result, I was not comfortable with formal lectures and receiving regular homework assignments. Votes: 3

The problem with public school is not overcrowding in the classroom. The problem is not teacher unions. The problem is not underfunding or lack of computer equipment. The problem is your damn kids. Votes: 3

Differentiation is classroom practice that looks eyeball to eyeball with the reality that kids differ, and the most effective teachers do whatever it takes to hook the whole range of kids on learning. Votes: 3

There can be infinite uses of the computer and of new age technology, but if teachers themselves are not able to bring it into the classroom and make it work, then it fails. Votes: 3

In Berkeley, we built the garden and a kitchen classroom. We've been working on it for 12 years. We've learned a lot from it. If kids grow it and cook it, they eat it. Votes: 3

There is no training, classroom or otherwise, that can prepare for trading the last third of a move, whether it's the end of a bull market or the end of a bear market. Votes: 3

As the daughter of a schoolteacher, I feel very strongly that the most important thing in school takes place right there in that classroom, and the interaction between the teacher and the child. Votes: 3

The opponents of my budget propose taking $200 million out of our classrooms and instead spending it on a larger school employee pay raise. Our focus should be on making sure our children come first. Votes: 3

By bringing current events into the classroom, everyday discussion, and social media, maybe we don't need to wait for our grandchildren's questions to remind us we should have paid more attention to current events. Votes: 3

Teacher, school administrators and parents will come away from Life-Enriching Education with skills in language, communication, and ways of structuring the learning environment that support the development of autonomy and interdependence in the classroom. Votes: 3

Lies," Mr Solomon said the next morning as he walked into the classroom. "We tell them to our friends," he said. "We tell them to our enemies. And eventually...we tell them to ourselves. Votes: 3

Let the radiance of my enthusiasms envelop the poor courtyard and the bare classroom. Let my heart be a stronger column and my goodwill purer gold than the columns and gold of rich schools. Votes: 3

I learned to listen and listen very well. It helped me athletically and in the classroom as well. The person who talks a lot or talks over people misses out because they weren't listening. Votes: 3

The most important thing whenever we're connecting kids to books, is that we try to match the book to the kid and make sure that reading is a fun, rewarding experience outside the classroom. Votes: 3

A tranquil city of good laws, fine architecture, and clean streets is like a classroom of obedient dullards, or a field of gelded bulls - whereas a city of anarchy is a city of promise. Votes: 3

When new technology in the classroom starts happening, some people get very excited and think of it as a panacea. It attracts very high amounts of money; it raises expectations, and those expectations aren't met. Votes: 3

I don't think it's particularly useful to be going to another country and staying in a classroom and just studying in the classroom. What's important, I think, is to get immersed into the local economy. Votes: 3

Home schooled children frequently combine for many purposes - and they interact well. The growth of the home schooling movement means that more and more children are learning together, just not in a traditional classroom. Votes: 3

Its so daunting to walk into a classroom or a school auditorium. Its like the worlds weirdest blind date. I know all the students are thinking, Who is this tool standing up in front of us? Votes: 3

Increased physical activity during the school day can help children's attention, classroom behavior, and achievement test scores. Meanwhile, the decline of play is closely linked to ADHD; behavioral problems; and stunted social, cognitive, and creative development. Votes: 3

Our children need to be able to see us take a stand for a value and against injustices, be those values and injustices in the family room, the boardroom, the classroom, or on the city streets. Votes: 3

I'm a great believer in poetry out of the classroom, in public places, on subways, trains, on cocktail napkins. I'd rather have my poems on the subway than around the seminar table at an MFA program. Votes: 3

It is not the responsibility of the enlightened teacher to bring the student to enlightenment. That may be true in the classroom, but in the world of enlightenment you have to find it, enter into it. Votes: 3

We need technology in every classroom and in every student and teacher's hand, because it is the pen and paper of our time, and it is the lens through which we experience much of our world. Votes: 3

Acting was my classroom in many ways and I always believed and I still do that acting is not just about pretending to be someone else, it's also about discovering yourself and reaching deeper inside yourself. Votes: 3

On average, our corps members stay in the classroom for eight years. But again, given the systemic nature of educational inequity, we know it is vital that some of our alumni take their experience outside the classroom. Votes: 3

I have a one-question language test that people who have lived abroad do better on than those who studied in a classroom. Try my test yourself: In a foreign language you've studied, how do you say 'doorknob'? Votes: 3

You can say whatever you want; it doesn't matter. It doesn't faze me. I'll still go out and do what I have to do, whether that's making A's in the classroom or doing well on the field. Votes: 3

It's the first thing I tell my students: If you could understand, really understand, that no one needs to read your work, then your writing would improve vastly by the time we meet in this classroom again. Votes: 3

It's so daunting to walk into a classroom or a school auditorium. It's like the world's weirdest blind date. I know all the students are thinking, 'Who is this tool standing up in front of us?' Votes: 3

Like a lot of other bashful introverts, I discovered that I like teaching a lot because it's like acting. When I stepped into the classroom, I stepped into a role, one that allowed me to forget myself. Votes: 3

I'm a big fan of regular school and regular education. I just learn better in a classroom where I can talk to other students. I want to go to prom and dances and have that social aspect. Votes: 3

What you do on the court, off the court, in the classroom, it's all the same. Your habits, the way you treat class, your relationships - it's all the same. Do it right or don't do it. Votes: 3

The most reliable way to be certain of their classroom impact is through independent studies conducted by third-party organisations which compare the student growth in our corps members' classrooms to that of other teachers in similar situations. Votes: 3

The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom. Votes: 3

People who spend their working hours in a lab or research library or a classroom might be intent primarily on keeping or advancing their elite positions, thereby lending tacit support to power structures. Or they might not be. Votes: 3

Bilingual-education advocates say it's important to teach a child in his or her family's language. I say you can't use family language in the classroom - the very nature of the classroom requires that you use language publicly. Votes: 3

God makes no mistakes. In all our trials and dramas there are lessons. Life is not a playground but a classroom. Our journey through life provides the course work and the tests needed for our education and development. Votes: 3

I really don't get nervous when I perform -it's more of an exciting feeling than anything else. But put me in a classroom with kids my age and have me take a test and yeah, I'll be nervous! Votes: 3

As an actor in the classroom, you're revealing so much, and teachers are, you know, they're just critiquing like a painting or a piece of work; it's like, it's you, and it's your emotions that they're working with. Votes: 3

Death confronts us not unlike the historical battle scene that hangs on the wall of the classroom. It is our task to obscure or quite obliterate the picture by our deeds while we are still in this world. Votes: 3

The message of Passover remains as powerful as ever. Freedom is won not on the battlefield but in the classroom and the home. Teach your children the history of freedom if you want them never to lose it. Votes: 3

The influence of teachers extends beyond the classroom, well into the future. It is they who shape and enrich the minds of the young, who touch their hearts and souls. It is they who shape a nation's future. Votes: 3

The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom. That's all it is. All those media companies say, "We're going to make a killing here." You won't because it's still only as good as the content. Votes: 3

The president finally explained why he sat in that classroom on 9/11 for 7 minutes after he was told the country was under attack. He said he was 'collecting his thoughts.' What a time to start a new hobby.' Votes: 3

It's important to know how to lead and manage a classroom with flexibility. Students of all ages are quite capable of learning these routines and contributing to their success once the teacher is comfortable guiding students in that direction. Votes: 3

It is vital that teachers can be paid more without having to leave the classroom. This will be particularly important to schools in the most disadvantaged areas as it will empower them to attract and recruit the best teachers. Votes: 3

You see, we'll never be able to compete in the 21st century unless we have an education system that doesn't quit on children, an education system that raises standards, an education that makes sure there's excellence in every classroom. Votes: 3

When I was hired by the University of Washington extension school to teach the one-year fiction writing course - 96 classroom hours - I quickly determined that I knew only about an hour's worth off the top of my head. Votes: 3

Google Apps for Education is a suite of applications intended to be helpful to higher level educational institutions, but in the long run, I think Google has a role to play in helping to assemble relevant content for classroom use. Votes: 3

As they work hard for our children, America's teachers often reach into their own pockets to make sure they have the best classroom supplies. I feel strongly that the federal government should help make up for their personal financial burden. Votes: 3

Television didn't transform education. Neither will the internet. But it will be another tool for teachers to use in their effort to reach students in the classroom. It will also be a means by which students learn outside the classroom Votes: 3

Rousseau ranks among the great educational theorists of the modern era, even if he was the last man to put in charge of a classroom. Young adults, he thought, should be allowed to develop their capabilities in their distinctive way. Votes: 3

Remember the picture of the president in the classroom, being told of the attack by chief of staff Andy Card? The American people thought they were seeing a man suddenly thrust into a grave challenge no one could have anticipated. Votes: 3

By its very definition, civic responsibility means taking a healthy role in the life of one's community. That means that classroom lessons should be complemented by work outside the classroom. Service-learning does just that, tying community service to academic learning. Votes: 3

I once made a check of all books in my fourth-grade classroom. Of the slightly more than six hundred books, almost one quarter had been published prior to the bombing of Hiroshima; 60 percent were either ten years old or older. Votes: 3

Free speech is one of our fundamental principles and it's pretty hard to speak freely when people are yelling at you when it's your turn. That would never be allowed in a classroom or in any other kind of meeting. Votes: 3

People with education get out of the classroom as soon as they can and jump into administration or higher ed, there just needs to be some motivating factor for teachers to stay in the classrooms and excel. It's that simple. Votes: 3

If you want to be successful in the gym, in the classroom, in college or when you get out and go into the world of work, that is going to be determined by how hard you are willing to work. Votes: 3

I did a school play when I was 10 where I played a cold germ infecting a whole classroom of kids. The play was called 'Piffle It's Only a Sniffle.' I'd never had so much fun. It was a thrill. Votes: 3

The church is not a theological classroom. It is a conversion, confession, repentance, reconciliation, forgiveness and sanctification center, where flawed people place their faith in Christ, gather to know and love him better, and learn to love others as he designed." Votes: 3

And that's actually the brunt of what we do is, people going straight from their workplace, straight from home, straight into the classroom and working directly with the students. So then we're able to work with thousands and thousands more students. Votes: 3

The church is not a theological classroom. It is a conversion, confession, repentance, reconciliation, forgiveness and sanctification center, where flawed people place their faith in Christ, gather to know and love him better, and learn to love others as he designed. Votes: 3

If you're a teacher, for instance, there are ways to have positive representation of gay people in the classroom. Making sure that, historically, people are noted and archived, and that kids are getting just positive images of people who are gay. Votes: 3

Creating a classroom environment that encourages students to take the risk of learning. We've known for a long time that when students lack a sense of safety or of belonging or of contribution, learning takes second place to meeting those needs. Votes: 3

Medicine is learned by the bedside and not in the classroom. Let not your conceptions of disease come from words heard in the lecture room or read from the book. See, and then reason and compare and control. But see first. Votes: 3

Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts. Votes: 3

Try to be all you can be to be the best human being you can be. Try to be that in your church, in your temple. Try to be that in your classroom. Do it because it is right to do. Votes: 3

I've invented several games for use as teaching tools in my classroom: one of them, a game called 'Iron Age: Council of the Clans,' got so popular among my students that they encouraged me to publish it, which I did. Votes: 3

With reference to the younger generation..."If the experience of their exhausted, insomniac, dispirited elders makes them decide they'd prefer not to go straight from the classroom to the cubicle to the coffin, it doesn't mean they're lazy. It means they're sane." Votes: 3

When you start one of these programs, school lunch programs, in a country that heretofore had nothing of that kind, immediately school enrollment jumps dramatically. Girls and boys get to the classroom with the promise of a good meal once a day. Votes: 3

Women who earn a certificate or degree from a community college, especially in STEM-related field, will be ready to move into a good-paying job in the growing global economy. Community colleges also offer mentorship and support that goes far beyond the classroom. Votes: 3

The audience will teach you how to act and the audience will teach you how to write and to direct. The classroom will teach you how to obey, and obedience in the theatre will get you nowhere. It’s a soothing falsity. Votes: 3

By and large, I think it should be a rule in the teacher employment manual that you can't go attend any event where if you took your classroom on a student field trip, they would summarily be obliterated. That should be rule No. 1. Votes: 3

Our society cannot afford a two-tiered system in which the affluent have access to superior education, while everyone else is subjected to a dull and incoherent classroom experience. Academic excellence, educational equity, and fairness demand a strong foundation of knowledge for all learners. Votes: 3

I intend to protect a free and open internet, extend its reach to every classroom, and every community, and help folks build the fastest networks, so that the next generation of digital innovators and entrepreneurs have the platform to keep reshaping our world. Votes: 3

All that we need explicitly to note is that, the more the passive attention is relied on, by keeping the material interesting; and the less the kind of attention requiring effort is appealed to; the more smoothly and pleasantly the classroom work goes on. Votes: 3

You need to be more careful, or you could hurt yourself." Right. Thank you, Mrs. Detweiler. I never would have come to that conclusion by myself. I was planning on incorporating a backflip into my next walk across the classroom but on second thought... Votes: 3

Once you’re out of the classroom, you might vow never to open another book, after being force-fed their contents for so many years. But know this: Books are the most worthy companions to take with you on this bitter-sweet journey known as life. Votes: 3

The student body was huge at UT and you had to mature pretty quick, very quick actually. I enjoyed it and it helped me a lot in my life in general - not only in the classroom but on the baseball field as well. Votes: 3

I made a point of always teaching undergraduates because they are not a captive audience. . . . I always tried out my research ideas first in the classroom to get feedback from people who didn't have to listen to me if I didn't make it interesting. Votes: 3

I'm going to insist that we've got decent funding, enough teachers, and computers in the classroom, but unless you turn off the television set and get over a certain anti-intellectualism that I think pervades some low-income communities, our children are not going to achieve. Votes: 3

Only another writer, someone who had worked his heart out on a good book which sold three thousand copies, could appreciate the thrill that overcame me one April morning in 1973 when Dean Rivers of our small college in Georgia appeared at my classroom door Votes: 3

It is in scientific honesty that I endorse the presentation of alternative theories for the origin of the universe, life and man in the science classroom. It would be an error to overlook the possibility that the universe was planned rather than happening by chance. Votes: 3

Under no circumstances should doodling be eradicated from a classroom or a boardroom or even the war room. On the contrary, doodling should be leveraged in precisely those situations where information density is very high and the need for processing that information is very high. Votes: 3

Not everything that happens in an in-person classroom is currently replicated with an online course, and perhaps the experience will never be the quite the same. But there are new opportunities that online learning opens up that would have never been possible without this technology. Votes: 3

My best life lessons and education didn't come from a classroom - they've come from the wild. How you act in the big moments, the ones that challenge you, scare you, tempt you, and force you to make the right decisions, is what defines you. Votes: 3

The amount of education, in the most basic sense of the word, I receive on a daily basis through Skype amazes me. The technology is one of the reasons I wanted to join Skype and am eager to get Skype into every classroom around the globe. Votes: 3

I don't want to deal with problems, and so you want to make sure that you don't give yourself problems by not doing your homework and maybe trying to take a kid that's got great ability but isn't going to get it done in the classroom. Votes: 3

I have had a love affair with Wake Forest since my undergraduate days, but I didn’t realize until many years later what I had truly learned at Wake Forest, both in and out of the classroom, about the meaning of a productive and meaningful life, Votes: 3

We passed a bill in 1997, signed by Democratic Gov. Lawton Chiles, which created a pilot program for a novel experiment called Florida Virtual School. The notion of children using a computer for a classroom and reporting to virtual teachers wasn't exactly mainstream thinking in those days. Votes: 3

I believe that education is the civil rights issue of our generation. And if you care about promoting opportunity and reducing inequality, the classroom is the place to start. Great teaching is about so much more than education; it is a daily fight for social justice. Votes: 3

One of my earliest memories... I knew three full verses of the Star Spangled Banner when I was seven or eight years old. And one of the nuns discovered this phenomenon and I was actually sent around from classroom to classroom to do the whole thing. Votes: 3

Whether the teacher is authoritarian, undisciplined, competent, incompetent, serious, irresponsible, involved, a lover of people and of life, cold, angry with the world, bureaucratic, excessively rational, or whatever else, he/she will not pass through the classroom without leaving his or her mark on the students. Votes: 3

Have you ever seen a demonstrable example of equality in your entire life? Can it be glimpsed in any dog show or classroom? In any ping pong game or chess match? Of course not. It is a philosophical abstraction, something nowhere to be found in nature. Votes: 3

But while they're adding teachers in places like South Korea, we're laying them off in droves. It's unfair to our kids. It undermines their future and ours. And it has to stop. Pass this bill, and put our teachers back in the classroom where they belong. Votes: 3

There is a great sense of community within the Montessori classroom, where children of differing ages work together in an atmosphere of cooperation rather than competitiveness. There is respect for the environment and for the individuals within it, which comes through experience of freedom within the community. Votes: 3

Athletes who take to the classroom naturally or are encouraged to focus on grades should be able to do well in the classroom. I believe the reason you go to college is to get your degree. It's not a minor league or an audition for the pros. Votes: 3

I started culinary school at a very young age, and really I wanted to be out working, cooking, more than I wanted to be in a classroom. You could say I wasn't a very good student - I wanted to be a student of life and experience. Votes: 3

I mean, if you've ever been a governor of a state, you understand the vast potential of broadband technology, you understand how hard it is to make sure that physics, for example, is taught in every classroom in the state. It's difficult to do. It's, like, cost-prohibitive. Votes: 3

I take a real interest in the possibilities of teaching - including the practice of bringing creative writing, and serious reading, into the classroom. I am persuaded that since language is alive, much of the challenge has already been met by the poets and novelists we read. Votes: 3

My modus operandi hasn't really changed that much from when I was an English teacher. I wanted my students to leave my classroom loving reading and wanting to read more, and if they left my classroom thinking that reading is boring, then I haven't done my job. Votes: 3

I think that were beginning to remember that the first poets didn't come out of a classroom, that poetry began when somebody walked off of a savanna or out of a cave and looked up at the sky with wonder and said, "Ahhh." That was the first poem. Votes: 3

Official motto of the White House economic team: Those who can, do. Those who can't, fantasize in the classroom, fail in Washington and then return to the Ivy Tower to train the next generation of egghead economic saboteurs. Life is good for left-wing academics. Everyone else pays dearly. Votes: 3

I wasn't a troublemaker. I wasn't impertinent. The teachers liked me. But year after year, the comments on my report cards basically came down to a single point, and it was 100% accurate: I seemed to get nothing whatsoever out of all those long hours spent in the classroom. Votes: 3

A great deal has been written in recent years about the purported lack of motivation in the children of the Negro ghettos. Little in my experience supports this, yet the phrase has been repeated endlessly, and the blame in almost all cases is placed somewhere outside the classroom. Votes: 3

I grew up in somewhat of a war zone in West Philadelphia in 1985, '86. It wasn't as extreme as someone coming in the classroom and just unloading on a class, but I knew to take the scenic route to go to the grocery store to avoid certain elements. Votes: 3

My mother taught me to read before I went to school, so I was pretty bored in school, and I turned into a little terror. You should have seen us in third grade. We basically destroyed our teacher. We would let snakes loose in the classroom and explode bombs. Votes: 3

When we seem to have won or lost in terms of certainties, we must, as literature teachers in the classroom, remember such warnings -- let literature teach us that there are no certainties, that the process is open, and that it may be altogether salutary that it is so. Votes: 3

Business is essentially applied rationality: a systematic process of thinking that produces a real-world result. Instead of mortgaging your life to go to business school, it's possible to dramatically increase your knowledge of business on your own time and with little cost - without setting foot inside a classroom. Votes: 3

Heroes represent the best of ourselves, respecting that we are human beings. A hero can be anyone from Gandhi to your classroom teacher, anyone who can show courage when faced with a problem. A hero is someone who is willing to help others in his or her best capacity. Votes: 3

When it comes to my vocabulary, I felt a responsibility when I was teaching to raise the bar of conversation in my classroom. And with my own students, I refused to let them use the phrase "I like" or "I don't like" when we were engaged in a critique. Votes: 3

You don't treat the so-called little people poorly, because we don't have any little people here! The trainers, the managers, the secretaries, the people who work in the dorms and cafeterias and classroom buildings are all professionals, and they're all important or they wouldn't be working for Michigan football. Votes: 3

You don't treat the so-called little people poorly, because we don't have any little people here! The trainers, the managers, the secretaries, the people who work in the dorms and cafeterias and classroom buildings are all professionals, and they're all important or they wouldn't be working for Michigan football. Votes: 3

Any idea can be brought into the classroom if the point is to inquire into its structure, history, influence and so forth. But no idea belongs in the classroom if the point of introducing it is to recruit your students for the political agenda it may be thought to imply. Votes: 3

A teacher in a differentiated classroom does not classify herself as someone who ‘already differentiates instruction.’ Rather that teacher is fully aware that every hour of teaching, every day in the classroom can reveal one more way to make the classroom a better match for its learners. Votes: 3

What it takes to do a job will not be learned from management courses. It is principally a matter of experience, the proper attitude, and common sense "” none of which can be taught in a classroom... Human experience shows that people, not organizations or management systems, get things done. Votes: 3

Part of Washington keeping its promises is a focus on directing more dollars into our local classrooms. Votes: 2

In the autumn of 1970 I had a job singing in the school system, playing my guitar in classrooms. Votes: 2

Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children. Votes: 2

I had a bad time in school in the first grade. Because I had been a rather lonely child on a farm, but I was free and wild and to be shut up in a classroom - there were 40 children on those days in the classroom, and it was quite a shock. Votes: 2

The world is a bell curve. Classroom test scores, employee performance in a company or how many people really, really like you. No matter the population you're studying, they always fit neatly across the standard deviations of the famous bell curve. Votes: 1

Someday, in the distant future, our grandchildren's grandchildren will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in front of boxes with fires glowing within. May they have the wisdom to know the difference between light and knowledge Votes: 1

In a way, education by its nature favours the extrovert because you are taking kids and putting them into a big classroom, which is automatically going to be a high-stimulation environment. Probably the best way of teaching in general is one on one, but that's not something everyone can afford. Votes: 1

Our education system is increasingly embracing a black-and-white way of thinking, in which 'learning' and 'play' are diametrically opposed. 'Learning' is the serious stuff that happens inside a classroom and can be measured via multiple choice questions and a No. 2 pencil. 'Play' is frivolous, fun, and worst of all, optional. Votes: 1

I began my career as an economics professor but became frustrated because the economic theories I taught in the classroom didn't have any meaning in the lives of poor people I saw all around me. I decided to turn away from the textbooks and discover the real-life economics of a poor person's existence. Votes: 1

On the first day of school, you got to be real careful where you sit. You walk into the classroom and just plunk your stuff down on any old desk, and the next thing you know the teacher is saying, 'I hope you all like where you're sitting, because these are your permanent seats.' Votes: 1

During my eleven years as a New York City public school teacher, I saw firsthand the impact that poverty has on the classroom. In low-income neighborhoods like Sunset Park, where I taught, students as young as five years old enter school affected by the stresses often created by poverty: domestic violence, drug abuse, gang activity. Votes: 1

Classroom libraries are not 25 copies of 5 books. Classroom libraries are 1000-2000 copies of different books. Votes: 0

We believe Skype in the Classroom will be a milestone in inspiring the next generation of social entrepreneurs and we can't wait to connect students with TOMS partners. Votes: 0