Classroom Quotes - Page 20

• On my first day teaching my own classroom, I threw up before I entered the building.

  Tim Gunn

  Teaching, Firsts, Building

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• We can go for days, weeks, and even months without saying or thinking the word 'education.' And yet, day in and day out, we are educating others and being educated ourselves. In the narrower sense of education - those classrooms and buildings and campuses where teachers and taught are brought together for purposes stated and unstated, for outcomes intended and unintended - we have all been profoundly affected by the pattern of days essentially not of our own making.

  Rosalie Maggio

  Education, Teacher, Thinking

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• I went to this massive co-ed school for the first time when I was 16. Everyone there had been together since elementary school, and I found it quite difficult, especially when I'd never stepped into a classroom with boys. So I started looking out in the community for a social outlet. I started getting involved in student films and community theater. Acting began as a hobby.

  Holland Roden

  School, Boys, Community

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• The Compassionate Classroom is a fabulous book! If teachers will read it, they can transform their classrooms.

  William Glasser

  Teacher, Book, Communication

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• Its so daunting to walk into a classroom or a school auditorium. Its like the worlds weirdest blind date. I know all the students are thinking, Who is this tool standing up in front of us?

  Libba Bray

  School, Thinking, Tools

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• How absurd that our students tuck their cell phones, BlackBerrys, iPads, and iPods into their backpacks when they enter a classroom and pull out a tattered textbook.

  Eli Broad

  Phones, Cells, Ipads

  Eli Broad (2012). “The Art of Being Unreasonable: Lessons in Unconventional Thinking”, p.141, John Wiley & Sons

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• In business school classrooms they construct wonderful models of a non- world.

  Peter Drucker

  Education, School, World

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• The most important thing whenever we're connecting kids to books, is that we try to match the book to the kid and make sure that reading is a fun, rewarding experience outside the classroom.

  Rick Riordan

  Fun, Book, Reading

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• Milton Friedman had the grace and good sense to recognize that he wanted to talk to the general public. He wasn't going to just lecture to the people who happened to appear in his classroom in Chicago or on some lecture circuit. He went out to talk to the general public, believing that you had to convince a democratic nation to change its ways, and he succeeded to a considerable extent.

  Allan H. Meltzer

  Believe, People, Grace

  "Economist Milton Friedman Dies". Interview with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. November 16, 2006.

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• By and large, I think it should be a rule in the teacher employment manual that you can't go attend any event where if you took your classroom on a student field trip, they would summarily be obliterated. That should be rule No. 1.

  Dennis Miller

  Teacher, Thinking, Events

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I find teaching - I like it, but I find just walking into the classroom and facing the students very difficult.

  Lydia Davis

  Teaching, Students, Difficult

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• What you do on the court, off the court, in the classroom, it's all the same. Your habits, the way you treat class, your relationships - it's all the same. Do it right or don't do it.

  Allan Houston

  Class, Way, Habit

  "Allan Houston's biggest swish". Interview with Jared Zwerling, www.espn.com. October 19, 2011.

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• Classrooms keep getting set up more and more around the verbal and less around the kinesthetic and active. They are increasingly becoming environments that favour the girls' brain.

  Michael Gurian

  Girl, Brain, Becoming

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• Well-roundedness comes not from sitting in a classroom but from experiencing the larger world.

  Alex Tabarrok

  Sitting, World, Wells

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• During my eleven years as a New York City public school teacher, I saw firsthand the impact that poverty has on the classroom. In low-income neighborhoods like Sunset Park, where I taught, students as young as five years old enter school affected by the stresses often created by poverty: domestic violence, drug abuse, gang activity.

  Sal Albanese

  Teacher, New York, Stress

  "Education’s Elephant in the Room: Poverty" by Sal F. Albanese, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2013.

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• The most reliable way to be certain of their classroom impact is through independent studies conducted by third-party organisations which compare the student growth in our corps members' classrooms to that of other teachers in similar situations.

  Wendy Kopp

  Teacher, Party, Independent

  "Eight questions for Wendy Kopp". "Democracy in America", www.economist.com. April 3, 2010.

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• There is incredible potential for digital technology in and beyond the classroom, but it is vital to rethink how learning is organised if we are to reap the rewards.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Technology, Rewards, Digital

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• God, the source of all knowledge, should never have been expelled from our children's classrooms.

  Ronald Reagan

  Children, Scary, Source

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1984). “Ronald Reagan”

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• I don't see a future where we're all taught by robots. The real life, physical experience of being in a classroom and having conversations with knowledgeable people is immeasurably valuable and irreplaceable.

  John Green

  Real, People, Robots

  "Interview with Bestselling Author John Green: Crash Course in Community Building and Content Creation". Interview with Heike Young, www.exacttarget.com. October 7, 2014.

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• But while they're adding teachers in places like South Korea, we're laying them off in droves. It's unfair to our kids. It undermines their future and ours. And it has to stop. Pass this bill, and put our teachers back in the classroom where they belong.

  Barack Obama

  Education, Teacher, Kids

  "Dissecting The Lies In Obama's $447 Billion "Shock And Awe" Reelection Ploy". Interview with Mike "Mish" Shedlock, www.businessinsider.com.au. September 9, 2011.

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• [T]he seeds of [the Argument Culture] can be found our classrooms, where a teacher will introduce an article or an idea . . . setting up debates where people learn not to listen to each other because they're so busy trying to win the debate.

  Deborah Tannen

  Teacher, Winning, Ideas

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• The history of our nation is intertwined with a certain religious tradition, and that the First Amendment was not intended to result in the complete exclusion of religious beliefs from our public classrooms.

  William Bennett

  Christian, Religious, Firsts

  William John Bennett (1994). “The De-valuing of America: The Fight for Our Culture and Our Children”, p.210, Simon and Schuster

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• For God to be kept out of the classroom or out of America's public debate by nervous school administrators or overcautious politicians serves no one's interests. That restriction prevents people from drawing on this country's rich and diverse religious heritage for guidance, and it degrades the nation's moral discourse by placing a whole realm of theological reasoning out of bounds. The price of that sort of quarantine, at a time of moral dislocation, is - and has been - far too high.

  Nancy Gibbs

  Christian, Country, Religious

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• It wasn't the Supreme Court that expelled God from our public school classrooms. It was the textbook publishers.

  James J. Kilpatrick

  Christian, Religious, School

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• We must continually remind students in the classroom that expression of different opinions and dissenting ideas affirms the intellectual process. We should forcefully explain that our role is not to teach them to think as we do but rather to teach them, by example, the importance of taking a stance that is rooted in rigorous engagement with the full range of ideas about a topic.

  Bell Hooks

  Education, Thoughtful, Thinking

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