Classroom Quotes - Page 3

• I'm a teacher still, but with a much larger classroom.

  Rick Riordan

  Teacher, Attitude, Teaching

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• Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer is garbage that no one ever reads.

  Andy Rooney

  Garbage, Waste, Literature

  Andy Rooney (2012). “Not That You Asked...”, p.13, Random House

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  The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

  John Ruskin

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago.

  Robert Moog

  Cat, Thinking, Long

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• Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions.

  Philip Emeagwali

  Believe, People, Computer

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• Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

  John Cotton Dana

  Inspirational, Education, Appreciation

  John Cotton Dana's remarks on a quotation suitable for inscription on a new building at Newark State College, Union, New Jersey (1912) as quoted in "The New York Times Book Review" (p. 55.), March 5, 1967.

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• Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Inspiring, Feet

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• I've come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my personal approach that creates the climate. It's my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess tremendous power to make a student's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a student humanized or de-humanized.

  Haim Ginott

  Inspirational, Life, Education

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• Be the change you want to see.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Build what you want to see in the world.

  Jack Dorsey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Be the change you want to see in your networks

  James H. Fowler

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Partisan politics has no place in the classroom.

  Juan Cole

  Partisan Politics, Partisans

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• The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes.

  Jack Hanna

  Eye, Important, World

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• Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents.

  Roger Moore

  Education, Children, Home

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• The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Graduation, Education, Wall

  Sydney J. Harris (1985). “Pieces of Eight Pa”, Mariner Books

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• Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Funny, Life, Motivational

  "An Enemy Called Average". Book by John L. Mason, 1990.

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• Any idea can be brought into the classroom if the point is to inquire into its structure, history, influence and so forth. But no idea belongs in the classroom if the point of introducing it is to recruit your students for the political agenda it may be thought to imply.

  Stanley Fish

  Ideas, Political, Agendas

  Stanley Fish (2015). “Think Again: Contrarian Reflections on Life, Culture, Politics, Religion, Law, and Education”, p.360, Princeton University Press

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• We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere.

  Major Owens

  Educational, Technology, Quality

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• The worst censors are those prohibiting criticism of the theory of evolution in the classroom.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Theory Of Evolution, Criticism, Worst

  "Time To End The Censorship". eagleforum.org. December 29, 2004.

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• The classroom - not the trench - is the frontier of freedom now and forevermore.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Trenches, Frontiers

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• Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake.

  Voltaire

  Relationship, Sleep, Knowing

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• I'm a comedian first. I've learned how to act. I just draw on life experiences and that's how I've learned. I didn't take classes or anything. I don't need no classroom.

  Steve Harvey

  Class, Comedian, Needs

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• It is commonly agreed that children spend more hours per year watching television than in the classroom, and far less in actual conversation with their parents.

  Paul Weyrich

  Children, Years, Parent

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• Being a Christian, I'm eager to introduce people to Jesus. I just don't think I should do it in the science classroom

  Kenneth R. Miller

  Christian, Jesus, Thinking

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• Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s.

  Clifford Stoll

  Computer

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