Classroom Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population.

  Wendy Craig

  Children, Abuse, Population

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• I never read a single book as a child. I did not read as a child. I worked on the farm. I had books in the classroom, but that was it. I never read a single book outside of the classroom.

  Story Musgrave

  Children, Book, Farms

  "NASA Distinguished Service Medal". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• Remember the picture of the president in the classroom, being told of the attack by chief of staff Andy Card? The American people thought they were seeing a man suddenly thrust into a grave challenge no one could have anticipated.

  Howard Fineman

  Men, People, Challenges

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

  Clifford Stoll

  Computer

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• Our educational results lag behind other states, and other nations, but worse still, behind the potential of the kids and the devoted teachers in our classrooms.

  Mitch Daniels

  Teacher, Educational, Kids

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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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• And that's actually the brunt of what we do is, people going straight from their workplace, straight from home, straight into the classroom and working directly with the students. So then we're able to work with thousands and thousands more students.

  Dave Eggers

  Home, People, Able

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  In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Mean, Science, Apples

  Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes "Evolution as Fact and Theory" (1983)

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• Common sense tells us that we should focus our resources to benefit children, teachers and taxpayers by keeping dollars in the classroom.

  Bob Beauprez

  Teacher, Children, Common Sense

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• Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Country, People, Television

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• Getting results through people is a skill that cannot be learned in the classroom.

  J. Paul Getty

  Skills, People, Results

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• The best learning happens in real life with real problems and real people and not in classrooms.

  Charles Handy

  Real, Learning, People

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• Someday, in the distant future, our grand-children' s grand-children will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in front of boxes with fires glowing within. May they have the wisdom to know the difference between light and knowledge.

  Plato

  Children, Fire, Light

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• Half of what you will accomplish in a day will be determined before you leave home. Three quarters of what you achieve will be determined before you enter the classroom door

  Harry Wong

  Educational, Home, Doors

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• I'm going to insist on making sure that we've got decent funding, that we've got enough teachers, that we've got computers in the classroom, but unless you turn off the television set and get over a certain anti-intellectualism that I think pervades some low-income communities, our children are not going to achieve.

  Barack Obama

  Teacher, Children, Thinking

  "Meet The Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. July 25, 2004.

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• The unions say 'last hired - first fired,', we say hire and fire based on merit. We want the best and brightest in the classroom.

  Scott Walker

  Fire, Unions, Want

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• Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Success, Inspiration

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.93, BookBaby

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• The kids in our classroom are infinitely more significant than the subject matter we teach.

  Meladee McCarty

  Education, Kids, Wrestling

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• It's the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Teacher, Differences

  "The class system: Michael Morpurgo's schooldays" by Michael Morpurgo, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2012.

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• Writing in African languages became a topic of discussion in conferences, in schools, in classrooms; the issue is always being raised - so it's no longer "in the closet," as it were. It's part of the discussion going on about the future of African literature. The same questions are there in Native American languages, they're there in native Canadian languages, they're there is some marginalized European languages, like say, Irish. So what I thought was just an African problem or issue is actually a global phenomenon about relationships of power between languages and cultures.

  Ngugi wa Thiong'o

  Writing, Native American, School

  Source: www.alternet.org

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• Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.

  Joe Paterno

  Success, Business, Congratulations

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• The best brains of the nation may be found on the last benches of the classroom.

  Abdul Kalam

  Inspirational, Brain, Benches

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• In life, the classroom is everywhere. The exam comes at the very end.

  Anna Quindlen

  Exam, Ends

  Anna Quindlen (2002). “A Short Guide to a Happy Life”, Arrow/Children's (a Division of Random House Group)

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• The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was.

  Walter J. West

  Appreciation, Appreciate, Firsts

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