Classroom Quotes - Page 24

• If you're afraid to talk to the other adults in your school it is definitely throughout history the hallmark of a failing school. When I was writing about the teachers' strike in New York City in 1968, the middle school where events triggered that strike was a place where teachers were known to hide in their classrooms.

  Dana Goldstein

  Teacher, Writing, School

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We can read the paper or current magazines and learn about national and world events, think about controversial subjects, learn how to disagree respectfully, and how, finally, to act on our convictions. We can read for pure delight, and if we do this as a family or classroom or other group we can build wonderful memories.

  Katherine Paterson

  Memories, Thinking, Groups

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• Our children need to be able to see us take a stand for a value and against injustices, be those values and injustices in the family room, the boardroom, the classroom, or on the city streets.

  Barbara Coloroso

  Children, Cities, Needs

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• I think reading intelligent expressions of different points of view is a good thing, and there is a way in which being in academia in a classroom at the University probably gives you, can give you an academic view of things, and reading actual real time debates about what should we do in Syria or the Buffett rule, budget issues...gives you a kind of sense that's hard to get in a classroom.

  William Kristol

  Real, Reading, Intelligent

  Source: www.chicagomaroon.com

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• Creating a classroom environment that encourages students to take the risk of learning. We've known for a long time that when students lack a sense of safety or of belonging or of contribution, learning takes second place to meeting those needs.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Creating, Safety, Long

  Source: blogs.edweek.org

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• For activists who want to preserve constitutional democracy, who don't believe in hereditary aristocracy, who believe that teachers ought to be able to deduct the 250 bucks of school supplies that they bring - they might spend their own money for in a classroom, then you still have time to fight a horrible piece of legislation.

  Keith Ellison

  Teacher, Believe, School

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Look at your life as your main career and your divine classroom.

  Judith Orloff

  Careers, Looks, Divine

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• Everyone who comes in is just amazed that our children do not have the animosity, the hatred, because these children are into it. You know, once you learn to like yourself, then you don't see this black-white bit. I still say that a good basic education is the only thing. I feel guilty sometimes because I don't think Jesus Christ could get any more accolades than I do when I walk through that classroom, even from the children I do not teach. They know that I love them, but I am forever telling them, "Get into that seat so you can have choices in this world."

  Marva Collins

  Jesus, Children, Thinking

  Source: reason.com

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• In the field of education, educators know that they leave a lasting impact on their students for better or for worse. Trust is established or diminished in the classroom and very good educators understand that they are fallible. Despite their best efforts, they will not always do the best for each student.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Impact, Best Effort, Fields

  Source: blogs.edweek.org

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• It's important to know how to lead and manage a classroom with flexibility. Students of all ages are quite capable of learning these routines and contributing to their success once the teacher is comfortable guiding students in that direction.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Teacher, Age, Important

  Source: blogs.edweek.org

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• Free speech is what we all have and is guaranteed by the First Amendment of the US Constitution. Academic freedom refers to what happens in the university, particularly in the classroom, and to the importance of the teacher having the right to teach and share what he or she has learned, has proven her competence to teach, having gone through a series of tests and certifications including research and writing to demonstrate her abilities and knowledge.

  Joan Wallach Scott

  Teacher, Writing, Constitution

  Source: www.salon.com

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• The next generation of innovators, who need neutrality the most, are not at the bargaining table. They're hard at work in their labs or classrooms, dreaming of the next big thing, and hoping that the Internet is as open to them as it was to the founders of Google.

  Edward Felten

  Dream, Google, Needs

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• I took piano lessons when I was a little kid, but even before that, you're singing in the classroom and wherever. Gosh, children are always singing. But I took music lessons, some choir and things like that at school. I learned how to play the guitar when I was about 13... ancient history.

  Cass McCombs

  Children, School, Kids

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You're only as good as the people you hire.

  Ray Kroc

  Leadership, Mcdonalds, People

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

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• Try to be all you can be to be the best human being you can be. Try to be that in your church, in your temple. Try to be that in your classroom. Do it because it is right to do.

  Maya Angelou

  Church, Trying, Temples

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• Not only do we need to focus on classrooms, but adult literacy is a huge issue in historically marginalized communities. That's a crisis, and it's one that you can't see.

  Deray McKesson

  Focus, Community, Literacy

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• It was my notion that teaching had to be thorough, it had to be well done, and it had to connect to something beyond the classroom; life.

  David C. Driskell

  Teaching, Done, Thorough

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I'm very struck by what you can do in a classroom. I've got 200 students. You don't do partisan politics in a classroom, that's not appropriate. But you want to give them a strong sense that these are the issues that matter.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Strong, Issues, Giving

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Freedom of speech is about expressing your opinion, however bad or good, however right or wrong, and being able to defend it and argue it and be argued with about it in public forums. But that's not what academic freedom is about. That's not what the classroom is about.

  Joan Wallach Scott

  Freedom Of Speech, Arguing, Opinion

  Source: www.salon.com

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• There is a tremendous amount of confusion and denial that exists about mass incarceration today, and that is the biggest barrier to movement building. As long as we remain in denial about this system, movement building will be impossible. Exposing youth in classrooms to the truth about this system and developing their critical capacities will, I believe, open the door to meaningful engagement and collective, inspired action.

  Michelle Alexander

  Meaningful, Believe, Doors

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• America comes with both rights and responsibilities. You have, for example, the right to free speech, but you have the responsibility to not yell 'fire' in a crowded theater. If you don't live up to that responsibility, you face certain consequences. It's a simple but effective formula. Unfortunately, tenured professors are completely insulated from it. They can scream fire in their classrooms all they want - and then hide behind their tenure if anyone questions them on it.

  Glenn Beck

  Responsibility, Simple, America

  Glenn Beck (2012). “Cowards: What Politicians, Radicals, and the Media Refuse to Say”, p.238, Simon and Schuster

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• I know where "Blubber" came from. It came from stories that my daughter told me when she came home from fifth grade. There was a kid in the class who was being bullied. We didn't even call it bullying then, that's what's so weird. Victimization in the classroom. The word bully was so out, was so not in use for all those years and now it's back big time.

  Judy Blume

  Daughter, Bullying, Kids

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• The president finally explained why he sat in that classroom on 9/11 for 7 minutes after he was told the country was under attack. He said he was 'collecting his thoughts.' What a time to start a new hobby.'

  Bill Maher

  Country, President, Hobbies

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• There is an attempt to deskill teaches by removing matters of conception from implementation. Teachers are no longer asked to be creative, to think critically, or to be creative. On the contrary, they have been reduced to the keeper of methods, implementers of an audit culture, and removed from assuming autonomy in their classrooms.

  Henry Giroux

  Teacher, Thinking, Creative

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Actually, I started as a ventriloquist and my music teacher said, "Why don't you emcee the talent show?" My act was out of the back of Boys' Life magazine-they had a whole series of jokes in the back of Boys' Life magazine for Boy Scouts. So my act was jokes with my ventriloquist figure, and it was really bad, but I walked into the classroom afterward and the kids went, "Wow, you're cool." I wasn't cool at all, but I thought, "Well, this is a pretty good deal."

  David Copperfield

  Teacher, Kids, Boys

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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