Classroom Quotes - Page 3

• Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer is garbage that no one ever reads.

  Andy Rooney

  Garbage, Waste, Literature

  Andy Rooney (2012). “Not That You Asked...”, p.13, Random House

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• Be the change you want to see.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Build what you want to see in the world.

  Jack Dorsey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions.

  Philip Emeagwali

  Believe, People, Computer

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• The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Real, Math, Technology

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• Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspiring, Education, Patriotic

  Thomas Jefferson, John Dewey (2008). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.86, Courier Corporation

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• The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.

  Ted Nelson

  News, Computer, Good News And Bad News

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• Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Inspiring, Feet

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• Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Science, Technology, Telescopes

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• Nothing can be done except little by little.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Perseverance, Done, Literature

  Charles Baudelaire (1956). “The Essence of Laughter: And Other Essays, Journals, and Letters”

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• Be the trouble you want to see in the world.

  Joey Comeau

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "A Softer World". Webcomic by Joey Comeau,

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• Be the compromise you want to see in the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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

  Jack Hanna

  Eye, Important, World

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• 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.

  Roger Moore

  Education, Children, Home

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• The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Graduation, Education, Wall

  Sydney J. Harris (1985). “Pieces of Eight Pa”, Mariner Books

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• Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Funny, Life, Motivational

  "An Enemy Called Average". Book by John L. Mason, 1990.

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• 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.

  Stanley Fish

  Ideas, Political, Agendas

  Stanley Fish (2015). “Think Again: Contrarian Reflections on Life, Culture, Politics, Religion, Law, and Education”, p.360, Princeton University Press

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

  Major Owens

  Educational, Technology, Quality

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• The worst censors are those prohibiting criticism of the theory of evolution in the classroom.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Theory Of Evolution, Criticism, Worst

  "Time To End The Censorship". eagleforum.org. December 29, 2004.

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• The classroom - not the trench - is the frontier of freedom now and forevermore.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Trenches, Frontiers

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• Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake.

  Voltaire

  Relationship, Sleep, Knowing

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• 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.

  Philip Emeagwali

  College, Eight, Years

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• 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.

  Conrad Burns

  Thank You, Teacher, Hard Work

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• 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.

  Major Owens

  Teacher, Order, People

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

  Kenneth R. Miller

  Christian, Jesus, Thinking

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