Classroom Quotes - Page 8

• Governments decide they know best and they're going to tell you what to do. The trouble is that education doesn't go on in the committee rooms of our legislative buildings. It happens in classrooms and schools, and the people who do it are the teachers and the students. And if you remove their discretion, it stops working.

  Ken Robinson

  Teacher, Educational, School

  "How to escape education's death valley". TED Talk, www.ted.com. April, 2013.

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• 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.

  Richard Price

  Relationship, Book, Angel

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• 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.

  Robert Hughes

  Motivational, Sports, Successful

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• There is no question we need higher academic standards and at the local level the rigor of the Common Core state standards must be the new minimum in classrooms.

  Jeb Bush

  Needs, Levels, Common

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• 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.

  William James

  Philosophy, Educational, Interesting

  William James (1983). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.66, Harvard University Press

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

  Mark Kennedy

  Dollars, Should, Bureaucracy

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

  Goldie

  Creating, Passionate, Well Being

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• One of the greatest gifts a caring teacher can contribute to children is to help them learn to sit when they feel like running, to raise their hand when they feel like talking, to be polite to their neighbor, to stand in line without pushing, and to do their homework when they feel like playing. By introducing procedures in the classroom, you are also introducing procedures as a way of living a happy and successful life.

  Harry Wong

  Running, Teacher, Children

  Harry K. Wong, Rosemary Tripi Wong, Chelonnda Seroyer (2009). “The First Days of School: How to be an Effective Teacher”, Harry K Wong Publication

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• The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "The Treasury of Humorous Quotations". Book by Evan Esar, p. 103, 1951.

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• 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.

  Robert J. Dolan

  Country, Thinking, Important

  "Robert Dolan Innovates Michigan’s MBA Program". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. April 13, 2009.

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• If you were to sit me down in a classroom, with fluorescent lights humming and some woman trying to teach me Italian, there's no way. But scream goes to Italy, we stay in a squat, and the only way you can ask someone where to take a piss is to do it in Italian. So I learned Italian.

  Dave Grohl

  Italian, Light, Trying

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• 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.

  Carly Fiorina

  Teacher, Children, Choices

  "Can Carly Fiorina ride a 'defeat Clinton' strategy to the GOP nomination? Plus, Gen. Michael Hayden makes case for NSA terror tools". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. May 31, 2015.

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• The use of online assessment tools is giving teachers a more fine-grained understanding of individual students' skills, and assisting them to determine the necessary next steps to enable them to achieve their own learning goals. We are seeing more effective differentiation in classrooms as a result.

  Susan Mann

  Teacher, Assessment, Skills

  "The Global Search for Education: The Tech Report - From Australia". Interview with C. M. Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2015.

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• 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.

  Nobuyoshi Araki

  Photography, Art, Photographer

  Interview with Dr. Anthony Al-Jamie, www.tokyojournal.com. 2002.

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

  Jenna Bush

  Dream, Jobs, Dream Job

  "Jenna Bush: 'I'm living my dream job'". TODAY Interview, www.today.com. April 22, 2008.

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• 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.

  Questlove

  War, Class, Philadelphia

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

  Austin Phelps

  Happiness, Attitude, Book

  Austin Phelps (1882). “The Theory of Preaching: Lectures on Homiletics”

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• I object to religion in science classrooms not because it's religion but because it's not science.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Fear, Atheism, Rage

  Twitter post from Apr 30, 2013

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• The experience I had all those 40 years of working on Broadway and working on television, I bring it to students and I let them kind of drain me dry but they all feel at the end of the class that they are getting so much out of it. The students grow in my classroom because they feel safe. They don't feel like they're going to be yelled at.

  Patricia Mauceri

  Class, Years, Television

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Jesus . . . wants us to see that the neighbor next door or the people sitting next to us on a plane or in a classroom are not interruptions to our schedule. They are there by divine appointment. Jesus wants us to see their needs, their loneliness, their longings, and he wants to give us the courage to reach out to them.

  Rebecca Pippert

  Jesus, Loneliness, Doors

  David Peterson, Rebecca Manley-Pippert (2013). “Out of the Saltshaker and into the World: Evangelism As A Way Of Life”, p.104, SPCK

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• 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.

  Steve Jobs

  Mother, Teacher, School

  "Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview With David Sheff, reprints.longform.org. February 1985.

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• 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.

  Patricia Mauceri

  Writing, Challenges, Students

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I strive to view my students as unique human beings all of whom come to my classroom with a personal history, cultural perceptions and traditions, goals and aspirations as well as fears and insecurities. By employing the principles of Personalization, I am able to connect with my students in a genuine way in order to build trust, respect and rapport in the classroom.

  Joe Harris

  Unique, Order, Views

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• If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you probably would design something like a classroom. If you wanted to create a business environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you probably would design something like a cubicle. And if you wanted to change things, you might have to tear down both and start over.

  John Medina

  Starting Over, Design, Brain

  "Education 2020 — An Emerging Consensus About Learning" By Paula Smith, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 17, 2011.

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• 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.

  Wernher von Braun

  Life, Honesty, Science

  Letter to California State board of Education, September 14, 1972.

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