Classroom Quotes - Page 17

• 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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• Baseball is a religion in my classroom. It's a very important part of life, baseball.

  Rafe Esquith

  Baseball, Important, Parts Of Life

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I grew up in my mom's third grade classroom and always helping her, and I also got a passion for kids that way.

  Allyson Felix

  Mom, Passion, Kids

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. October 25, 2012.

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• Whether we're fighting climate change or going to space, everything is moved forward by computers, and we don't have enough people who can code. Teaching young people to code early on can help build skills and confidence and energize the classroom with learning-by-doing opportunities. I learned how to fly a hot air balloon when I was 30,000 feet up and my life was in the balance: you can learn skills at any age but why wait when we can teach everyone to code now!

  Richard Branson

  Teaching, Fighting, Opportunity

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• Success is the reward for toil.

  Sophocles

  Toil, Rewards

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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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• The true face of the unions is not now a man in a hard hat as much as it is a woman in a classroom or in cleaning smocks.

  Karen Nussbaum

  Men, Unions, Faces

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• I made a point of always teaching undergraduates because they are not a captive audience. . . . I always tried out my research ideas first in the classroom to get feedback from people who didn't have to listen to me if I didn't make it interesting.

  Edmund Morgan

  Teaching, Ideas, People

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• The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility, and evil with activity, as often happens in old-time discipline . . . A room in which all the children move about usefully, intelligently, and voluntarily, without committing any rough or rude act, would seem to me a classroom very well disciplined indeed.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Lying, Moving

  Maria Montessori (2013). “The Montessori Method: Scientific Pedagogy as Applied to Child Education in the Children's Houses with Additions and Revisions”, p.99, Read Books Ltd

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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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• Most of the time, I don't watch classics with anybody. I have to be by myself. That's my classroom.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Watches

  Source: collider.com

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• This kind of totalization of security consciousness [after tragedy of 9/11] has the effect within classrooms (and beyond) of constraining the imagination and reinforcing attitudes that privilege the forces of law and order as against the crosscurrents of freedom and dissent.

  Richard A. Falk

  Attitude, Order, Law

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I'm very sensitive. I remember, as a kid at school, if someone in the classroom was sad or angry, it could have a great impact on me.

  Aurora Aksnes

  School, Kids, Impact

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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• Only another writer, someone who had worked his heart out on a good book which sold three thousand copies, could appreciate the thrill that overcame me one April morning in 1973 when Dean Rivers of our small college in Georgia appeared at my classroom door

  James A. Michener

  Morning, Book, Heart

  James A. Michener (2013). “Hawaii: A Novel”, p.1333, Dial Press

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• Professors will lecture with more inspiration if they occasionally alternate the classroom with the beach: authors will write better when, as Macaulay used to do, they write for two hours, then pitch quoits, and then go back to their writing. But certainly more than the mere mechanical alternation is involved.

  Rollo May

  Beach, Inspiration, Writing

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.66, W. W. Norton & Company

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• This is like the gun you shoot at the beginning of the race or the bell that you ring at the beginning of a classroom discussion, .. This is the president saying, 'OK, we're going to get serious about this now. Congress is going to work on it. I'm going to put my political capital behind it.' .

  Tamar Jacoby

  Gun, Race, Political

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• When I was hired by the University of Washington extension school to teach the one-year fiction writing course - 96 classroom hours - I quickly determined that I knew only about an hour's worth off the top of my head.

  James Thayer

  Writing, School, Years

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• There are some timid souls that will never know victory nor defeat.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Perseverance, Soul, Victory

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• Each man must work for himself, and unless he so works, no outside help can avail him.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Hard Work, Men, Helping

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.71, Cornell University Press

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• In my fourth grade classroom, I even instituted a government structure, because I was really interested in people having positions and there being law.

  Kevin Systrom

  Government, Law, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A third place to build the Great Society is in the classrooms of America. There your children's lives will be shaped. Our society will not be great until every young mind is set free to scan the farthest reaches of thought and imagination. We are still far from that goal.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Children, America

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

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• In many places, classrooms are overcrowded and curricula are outdated. Most of our qualified teachers are underpaid, and many of our paid teachers are unqualified. So we must give every child a place to sit and a teacher to learn from. Poverty must not be a bar to learning, and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Teacher, Children

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

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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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• We have always believed that our people can stand on no higher ground than the school ground, or can enter any more hopeful room than the classroom. We blend time and faith and knowledge in our schools - not only to create educated citizens, but also to shape the destiny of this great Republic.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, School, Destiny

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