Classroom Quotes - Page 18

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

  David Jeremiah

  People, Bitter, Prison

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• 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.

  Paul David Tripp

  People, Church, And Love

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• The style of flirtation specific to classrooms was of service to the students all their lives.

  Renata Adler

  Style, Students, Flirtation

  Renata Adler (2013). “Speedboat”, p.153, New York Review of Books

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• A gifted teacher has an unfailing eye for magical classrooms & loses sleep over anything less than the highest quality.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Teacher, Teaching, Sleep

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• So you think the best way to prepare kids for the real world is to bus them to a government institution where they're forced to spend all day isolated with children of their own age and adults who are paid to be with them, placed in classes that are too big to allow more than a few minutes of personal interaction with the teacher-then spend probably an hour or more everyday waiting in lunch lines, car lines, bathroom lines, recess lines, classroom lines, and are forced to progress at the speed of the slowest child in class?

  Steven James

  Teacher, Children, Real

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• Aesthetic value emanates from the struggle between texts: in the reader, in language, in the classroom, in arguments within a society. Aesthetic value rises out of memory, and so (as Nietzsche saw) out of pain, the pain of surrendering easier pleasures in favour of much more difficult ones ... successful literary works are achieved anxieties, not releases from anxieties.

  Harold Bloom

  Pain, Memories, Struggle

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• Each time I visit such a classroom, where the teacher is more interested in creating a democratic community than in maintaining her position of authority, I’m convinced all over again that moving away from consequences and rewards isn’t just realistic - it’s the best way to help kids grow into good learners and good people.

  Alfie Kohn

  Teacher, Moving, Kids

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• 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.

  Cassandra King

  Sweet, Book, Journey

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• I believe that all genial classrooms share at least five characteristics that guide their instruction regardless of content or grade level. These characteristics are (1) freedom to choose, (2) open-ended exploration, (3) freedom from judgment, (4) honoring every student's experience, and (5) belief in every student's genius.

  Thomas Armstrong

  Believe, Genius, Levels

  Thomas Armstrong (1998). “Awakening Genius in the Classroom”, p.60, ASCD

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• Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.

  Seth Lloyd

  Simple, Starting Over, Able

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

  Chris Christie

  Children, Believe, Priorities

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• 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.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Teacher, Kids, Reality

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• We have a dangerous trend beginning to take place in our education. We're starting to put more and more textbooks into our schools. We've become accustomed of late of putting little books into the hands of children, containing fables and moral lessons. We're spending less time in the classroom on the Bible, which should be the principal text in our schools. The Bible states these great moral lessons better than any other man-made book.

  Fisher Ames

  Inspirational, Life, Bible

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• 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.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Teacher, Teaching, Doe

  Carol Ann Tomlinson (2001). “How to Differentiate Instruction in Mixed-Ability Classrooms, 2nd Edition”, p.29, ASCD

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• Well, maybe it was just that I wasn't going to like anybody because I had to work and I had to explain to my teachers why I wasn't keeping up. I'd fall asleep and things in class and they'd lecture me about the reality of their classroom. I said, 'You want to see my reality?' I opened up my backpack to where you usually keep your pencils. That's where I kept my bills... electric bills, rent... That was my reality.

  Eddie Vedder

  Teacher, Fall, Reality

  "He Didn't Ask for All This". Los Angeles Times, May 1, 1994.

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• The family endures because it offers the truth of mortality and immortality within the same group. The family endures because, better than the commune, kibbutz, or classroom, it seems to individualize and socialize its children, to make us feel at the same time unique and yet joined to all humanity, accepted as is and yet challenged to grow, loved unconditionally and yet propelled by greater expectations. Only in the family can so many extremes be reconciled and synthesized. Only in the family do we have a lifetime in which to do it.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Children, Unique, Expectations

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• This is a very challenging moment for educators. Our children are headed for a much more networked existence, one that allows for learning to occur 24, 7, 365, one that renders physical space much less important for learning, one that will challenge the relevance of classrooms as currently envisioned, and one that challenges our roles as teachers and adult learners.

  Will Richardson

  Teacher, Children, Space

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• 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!

  Alexa Vega

  Kids, Feelings, Age

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  David Mamet

  Writing, Theatre, Obedience

  David Mamet (2011). “True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor”, p.19, Vintage

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• It isn't the people you fire who make your life miserable, it's the people you don't.

  Harvey Mackay

  Fire, People, Miserable

  Harvey Mackay (2007). “Fired Up!: How the Best of the Best Survived and Thrived After Getting the Boot”, p.216, Ballantine Books

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• Professors rarely speak of the place of eros or the erotic in our classrooms. Trained in the philosophical context of Western metaphysical dualism, many of us have accepted the notion that there is a split between the body and the mind. Believing this, individuals enter the classroom to teach as though only the mind is present, and not the body.

  Bell Hooks

  Believe, Philosophical, Erotic

  Bell Hooks (2014). “Teaching To Transgress”, p.199, Routledge

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• In differentiated classrooms, teachers begin where students are, not the front of a curriculum guide.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Teacher, Curriculum, Students

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• Art in the classroom not only spurs creativity, it also inspires learning.

  Mickey Hart

  Art, Creativity, Inspire

  "There’s a Fire on the Mountain" by Mickey Hart, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2011.

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• Men, in teaching others, learn themselves.

  Thomas Lodge

  Inspirational, Education, Teaching

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• To pursue science is not to disparage the things of the spirit. In fact, to pursue science rightly is to furnish the framework on which the spirit may rise.

  Vannevar Bush

  May, Facts, Spirit

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