Classroom Quotes - Page 13

• Each day millions of children arrive in American classrooms in search of more than reading and math skills. They are looking for a light in the darkness of their lives, a Good Samaritan who will stop and bandage a bruised heart or ego.

  Jim Trelease

  Children, Reading, Heart

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• 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.

  Scott Kahn

  Artist, Avid, Self

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• Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

  Thomas Huxley

  Science, Common Sense, Logic

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1902). “An Introduction to the Study of Zoology, Illustrated by the Crayfish”

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• Oh, that,' said Ginny, giggling. 'Well-Percy's got a girlfriend.' Fred dropped a stack of books on George's head. 'What?' 'It's that Ravenclaw prefect, Penelope Clearwater,' said Ginny. 'That's who he was writing to all last summer. He's been meeting her all over the school in secret. I walked in on them kissing in an empty classroom one day. He was so upset when she was-you know-attacked. You won't tease him, will you?' she added anxiously. 'Wouldn't dream of it,' said Fred, who was looking like his birthday had come early.

  J. K. Rowling

  Summer, Dream, Girlfriend

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• 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.

  Ally Carter

  Morning, Lying, Enemy

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• Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.

  Claus Moser, Baron Moser

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Education

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• If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call to make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

  Stephen Levine

  Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship

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• The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion, the steadfast and willing devotion to the labor that makes the classwork not a gymnastic hour and a half, or at the lowest level, a daily drudgery, but a devotion that allows the classroom discipline to become moments of dancing too.

  Merce Cunningham

  Dance, Ballet Class, Discipline

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• It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts.

  Millard Fuller

  Life, Graduation, Humorous

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• The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.

  Albert Einstein

  Education, Real, Creativity

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• We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Success, Nature, Congratulations

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• 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.

  Lucille Clifton

  Thinking, Sky, Poetry

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• high school guys only appear hot to high school girls. its something to do with the fluorescent lighting in the classrooms, i think. They're actually really skinny and spotty, and they have giant feet

  Rainbow Rowell

  Girl, School, Thinking

  Rainbow Rowell (2011). “Attachments”, p.37, Hachette UK

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• 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.

  James Patterson

  Fun, People, Trying

  James Patterson (2009). “Maximum Ride: Max”, p.135, Random House

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• Calvin: Today for show and tell, I've brought a tiny miracle of nature: a single snowflake! I think we might all learn a lesson from how this utterly unique and exquisite crystal turns into an ordinary, boring molecule of water just like every other one when you bring it into the classroom. And now, while the analogy sinks in, I will be leaving you drips and going outside.

  Bill Watterson

  Learning, Unique, Thinking

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• 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.

  Po Bronson

  Book, Horizon, Changed

  Po Bronson (2013). “What Should I Do With My Life?”, p.382, Random House

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• He had called girls to him before. There was nothing so easy whether you were walking into a classroom, a club, or down the street. All you had to do was send out the right signals, give her the right look, turn your body the right way, and never for a moment let it cross your mind that she might not be interested.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Girl, Giving, Mind

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2010). “The Demon's Lexicon”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

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• I wrote a huge number of letters that spring: one a week to Naoko, several to Reiko, and several more to Midori. I wrote letters in the classroom, I wrote letters at my desk at home with Seagull in my lap, I wrote letters at empty tables during my breaks at the Italian restaurant. It was as if I were writing letters to hold together the pieces of my crumbling life.

  Haruki Murakami

  Spring, Home, Writing

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• At school, our classroom had a small rodent zoo consisting of two rabbits, three hamsters, a litter of baby gerbils and a guinea pig. At first, I’d thought the teacher was raising snack food, which impressed me, being the first sign of intelligence she’d shown. Soon, though, I’d figured out the animals’ true purpose and left them alone, though I would never understand the appeal of petting and coddling perfectly good food.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Baby, Teacher, Zoos

  Kelley Armstrong (2010). “Men of the Otherworld”, p.124, Vintage Canada

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• What if there is no dirt on Merjack? Oh, I can answer this one. (Omari raised his hand like he was in a classroom, then dropped it to his side.) We all die. (Omari) I just love teenage angst. By the way, chip, there are worse things in life than dying. (Nero) Like what? (Omari) Living as a slave. (Alix)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Teenage, Hands, Things In Life

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Born of Ice: The League: Nemesis Rising”, p.211, St. Martin's Paperbacks

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• The poet dreams of the classroom I dreamed I stood up in class And I said aloud: Teacher, Why is algebra important? Sit down, he said. Then I dreamed I stood up And I said: Teacher, I’m weary of the turkeys That we have to draw every fall. May I draw a fox instead? Sit down, he said. Then I dreamed I stood up once more and said: Teacher, My heart is falling asleep And it wants to wake up. It needs to be outside. Sit down, he said.

  Mary Oliver

  Dream, Teacher, Fall

  Mary Oliver (2010). “Swan: Poems and Prose Poems”, p.27, Beacon Press

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• While complying can be an effective strategy for physical survival, it's a lousy one for personal fulfillment. Living a satisfying life requires more than simply meeting the demands of those in control. Yet in our offices and our classrooms we have way too much compliance and way too little engagement. The former might get you through the day, but only the latter will get you through the night.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Night, Office, Survival

  Daniel H. Pink (2011). “Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us”, p.110, Penguin

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• Anecdotally his fitness reports rated him well above average in the classroom, excellent in the field, fluently bilingual in English and French, passable in Spanish, outstanding on all man-portable weaponry, and beyond outstanding at hand-to-hand combat. Susan knew what that last rating meant. Like having a running chainsaw thrown at you

  Lee Child

  Running, Men, Average

  Lee Child (2015). “The Essential Jack Reacher, Volume 2, 6-Book Bundle: 61 Hours, Worth Dying For, The Affair, A Wanted Man, Never Go Back, Personal”, p.175, Delacorte Press

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• Dreams don't work unless you do

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivational, Dream, Encouragement

  FaceBook post by John C. Maxwell from Jun 01, 2016

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• Most teachers have little control over school policy or curriculum or choice of texts or special placement of students, but most have a great deal of autonomy inside the classroom. To a degree shared by only a few other occupations, such as police work, public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid.

  Tracy Kidder

  Teacher, Teaching, School

  Tracy Kidder (1989). “Among School Children”, p.59, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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