Classroom Quotes - Page 16

• There is far too much of the feeding-bottle in education and young people ought to be supplied with good intellectual food and then left to help themselves.

  Thomas Huxley

  Inspiring, Education, People

  Thomas Henry Huxley, Cyril Bibby (1971). “T. H. Huxley on Education”, p.10, Cambridge University Press

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• Merely gathering knowledge may become the most useless work a man can do. What can you do to help and heal the world? That is the educational test.

  Henry Ford

  Inspiring, Education, Men

  Henry Ford (2015). “My Life and Work: Top Biography”, p.168, 谷月社

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  The object of education is not to fill a man's mind with facts; it is to teach him how to use his mind in thinking.

  Henry Ford

  Inspiring, Education, Men

  Henry Ford (2015). “My Life and Work: Top Biography”, p.167, 谷月社

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• True majorities, in a TV-dominated and anti-intellectual age, may need sound bites and flashing lights and I am not against supplying such lures if they draw children into even a transient concern with science. But every classroom has one [Oliver] Sacks , one [Eric] Korn, or one [Jonathan] Miller , usually a lonely child with a passionate curiosity about nature, and a zeal that overcomes pressures for conformity. Do not the one in fifty deserve their institutions as well magic places, like cabinet museums, that can spark the rare flames of genius?

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Lonely, Children, Museums

  Stephen Jay Gould (1995). “Dinosaur in a haystack: reflections in natural history”, Harmony

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• If you don't have an effective teacher in front of the classroom, you won't change the trajectory for students.

  Melinda Gates

  Teacher, Students, Trajectory

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• To build a more healthy, peaceful and equitable world the classrooms of the world have to be full of girls as well as boys.

  Kofi Annan

  Girl, Boys, Healthy

  "World's children in class for 'biggest ever lesson'". www.theguardian.com. April 9, 2003.

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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 would probably design something like a classroom.

  John Medina

  Design, Brain, Doing You

  John Medina (2014). “Brain Rules (Updated and Expanded): 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School”, p.14, Pear Press

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• Though we have been stuffing them into classrooms and cubicles for decades, our brains actually were built to survive in jungles and grasslands. A lifetime of exercise can result in a sometimes astonishing elevation in cognitive performance, compared with those who are sedentary.

  John Medina

  Exercise, Brain, Cubicles

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• Lack of homework shows up in the marketplace as well as in the classroom.

  Jim Rohn

  Homework, Shows, Wells

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Dec 17, 2016

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• I always had a weird thing with being the last person somewhere like a movie theater or a classroom. I get a weird sense of anxiety.

  Alona Tal

  Anxiety, Lasts, Weird Things

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

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• 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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• The best way to win an argument is to begin by being right.

  William Ruckelshaus

  Wisdom, Winning, Way

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• But more classrooms and more teachers are not enough. We must seek an educational system which grows in excellence as it grows in size. This means better training for our teachers. It means preparing youth to enjoy their hours of leisure as well as their hours of labor. It means exploring new techniques of teaching, to find new ways to stimulate the love of learning and the capacity for creation.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  The Great Society, delivered 22 May 1964, Ann Arbor, MI

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• I realized if you can change a classroom, you can change a community, and if you change enough communities you can change the world.

  Erin Gruwell

  Community, World, Enough

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• The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Block, School, Secret

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• There is nothing better than being in a classroom with really, really brilliant students, and opening up new worlds to them. That's what I love doing.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Opening Up, World, Students

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• We [in the MBA] get to create a situation where we're really choosing the students to join our environment based upon what we think they can teach the rest of us. We're always trying to attract people who are going to bring excitement and intellectual curiosity into our classrooms in our environment.

  Robert J. Dolan

  Thinking, Mba, Always Trying

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Parents teach in the toughest school in the world - The School for Making People. You are the board of education, the principal, the classroom teacher, and the janitor.

  Virginia Satir

  Teacher, School, People

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• Success is the reward for toil.

  Sophocles

  Toil, Rewards

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• I realized with grief that purposeless activities in language arts are probably the burial grounds of language development and that coffins can be found in most classrooms, including mine.

  Mem Fox

  Education, Art, Grief

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• I had a bad time in school in the first grade. Because I had been a rather lonely child on a farm, but I was free and wild and to be shut up in a classroom - there were 40 children on those days in the classroom, and it was quite a shock.

  Beverly Cleary

  Lonely, Children, School

  "A few words with Beverly Cleary on her 95th birthday". Interview with Jacket Copy, latimesblogs.latimes.com. April 12, 2011.

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• One thing I've learned from 35 years in the classroom is that people learn best when they are laughing, when they are emotionally hit, that it's both the brain and the heart.

  Robert Reich

  Heart, Years, People

  "Robert Reich: Making people laugh about economic inequality". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. October 16, 2013.

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• My teacher said my brain was the size of a pea. He made my life miserable by singling me out in the classroom as a failure.

  Willard Wigan

  Teacher, Brain, Size

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• Exposing students to lots of books and positive reading experiences while building a network of other readers who support each other provides students with tools that last beyond the classroom setting.

  Donalyn Miller

  Book, Reading, Support

  Donalyn Miller (2013). “Reading in the Wild: The Book Whisperer's Keys to Cultivating Lifelong Reading Habits”, p.101, John Wiley & Sons

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• Some of my favorite memories happened in the Boy Meets World classroom.

  Danielle Fishel

  Memories, Boys, World

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