Classroom Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  Dave Van Ronk

  Stars, Memories, Eight

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

  Marshall McLuhan

  Agency, Today, Eloquence

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• Do not follow where the path may lead.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Graduation, Travel, Adventure

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• The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Inspirational, Success, Perseverance

  'The Ladder of Saint Augustine' (1850)

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• 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.

  William Osler

  Book, Practice Of Medicine, Disease

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

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Wells

  "Five minutes with Jackie Joyner-Kersee". Interview With Julie Deardorff, www.chicagotribune.com. May 2, 2012.

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• 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.

  Naveen Jain

  Teacher, Brain, Dollars

  "Naveen Jain on Rethinking Education: Can We Use Neuroscience to Create Better Learners". www.forbes.com. June 16, 2011.

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• Be satisfied with nothing but your best.

  Edward Rowland Sill

  Success, Swimming, Academic Excellence

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• 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.

  Mark Helprin

  Law, Cities, Promise

  "Always carry a bin bag" by Jemima Lewis, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2005.

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• 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.

  James Heckman

  Teacher, Educational, School

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• Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Learning, Technology, Computer Literacy

  Nicholas Negroponte (2015). “Being Digital”, p.6, Vintage

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• Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspiring, Education, Teacher

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.107, Best Books on

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• All battles are won before they start.

  Sun Tzu

  Educational, Battle, Management

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• People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.

  Adam Osborne

  Mistake, Technology, Thinking

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• 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.

  Camille Paglia

  Art, School, Practice

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• The schools schedule is a series of units of time; the clock is king.

  Ted Sizer

  Kings, Educational, School

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• Partisan politics has no place in the classroom.

  Juan Cole

  Partisan Politics, Partisans

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

  Harry Wong

  Education, Students, Should

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• I've come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my personal approach that creates the climate. It's my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess tremendous power to make a student's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a student humanized or de-humanized.

  Haim Ginott

  Inspirational, Life, Education

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• Be the change you want to see in your networks

  James H. Fowler

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• I'm a teacher still, but with a much larger classroom.

  Rick Riordan

  Teacher, Attitude, Teaching

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  If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.

  Nikola Tesla

  Inspirational, Thinking, Secret

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• I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago.

  Robert Moog

  Cat, Thinking, Long

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• Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

  John Cotton Dana

  Inspirational, Education, Appreciation

  John Cotton Dana's remarks on a quotation suitable for inscription on a new building at Newark State College, Union, New Jersey (1912) as quoted in "The New York Times Book Review" (p. 55.), March 5, 1967.

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  The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

  John Ruskin

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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