Classroom Quotes - Page 8

• It is in scientific honesty that I endorse the presentation of alternative theories for the origin of the universe, life and man in the science classroom. It would be an error to overlook the possibility that the universe was planned rather than happening by chance.

  Wernher von Braun

  Life, Honesty, Science

  Letter to California State board of Education, September 14, 1972.

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• If you do it right 51 percent of the time you will end up a hero.

  Alfred P. Sloan

  Motivational, Hero, Ends

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• I object to religion in science classrooms not because it's religion but because it's not science.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Fear, Atheism, Rage

  Twitter post from Apr 30, 2013

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• Traditional education focuses on teaching, not learning. It incorrectly assumes that for every ounce of teaching there is an ounce of learning by those who are taught. However, most of what we learn before, during, and after attending schools is learned without its being taught to us. A child learns such fundamental things as how to walk, talk, eat, dress, and so on without being taught these things. Adults learn most of what they use at work or at leisure while at work or leisure. Most of what is taught in classroom settings is forgotten, and much or what is remembered is irrelevant.

  Russell L. Ackoff

  Children, Teaching, School

  Russell L. Ackoff, Daniel Greenberg (2008). “Turning Learning Right Side Up: Putting Education Back on Track”, p.3, Pearson Prentice Hall

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• If you can sit at set of sun And count the deeds that you have done And counting find oneself-denying act, one word That eased the heart of him that heard. One glance most kind, Which fell like sunshine where he went, Then you may count that day well spent.

  Robert Browning

  Relationship, Heart, Sunshine

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• So we find that the three possible solutions of the great problem of increasing human energy are answered by the three words: food, peace, work... Their scientific meaning and purpose now clear to me: food to increase the mass, peace to diminish the retarding force, and work to increase the force accelerating human movement.

  Nikola Tesla

  Energy, Three, Purpose

  "The Problem of Increasing Human Energy". "Century" Illustrated Magazine, Volume 60, June 1900.

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• Happy, calm children learn best

  Daniel Goleman

  Children, Calm

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• An educated man is not one whose memory is trained to carry a few dates in history - he is one who can accomplish things.

  Henry Ford

  Inspiring, Education, Memories

  Henry Ford, Rose Wilder Lane, Samuel Crowther “The Story of Henry Ford - An American Dream Cone True”, Lulu.com

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• There are two extremes to be avoided: one is the attitude of contempt toward education, the other is the tragic snobbery of assuming that marching through an educational system is a sure cure for ignorance and mediocrity.

  Henry Ford

  Inspiring, Education, Attitude

  Henry Ford (2015). “My Life and Work: Top Biography”, p.166, 谷月社

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• If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you probably would design something like a classroom. If you wanted to create a business environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you probably would design something like a cubicle. And if you wanted to change things, you might have to tear down both and start over.

  John Medina

  Starting Over, Design, Brain

  "Education 2020 — An Emerging Consensus About Learning" By Paula Smith, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 17, 2011.

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• I intend to protect a free and open internet, extend its reach to every classroom, and every community, and help folks build the fastest networks, so that the next generation of digital innovators and entrepreneurs have the platform to keep reshaping our world.

  Barack Obama

  Our World, Entrepreneur, Community

  Sixth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 20 January 2015

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• I am the kind of dude that would go to your seventh grade class and sit at the back of the classroom and stare at all your butts.

  Jack Barakat

  Class, Kind, Grades

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• A wealth of knowledge is openly accessible in nature. Our ancestors knew this and embraced the natural cures found in the bosoms of the earth. Their classroom was nature. They studied the lessons to be learned from animals, knowing that much of human behavior can be explained by watching the wild beasts around us. Animals are constantly teaching us things about ourselves and the way of the universe, but most people are too blind to watch and listen.

  Suzy Kassem

  Teaching, Animal, Wealth Of Knowledge

  "Rise Up and Salute the Sun". Book by Suzy Kassem, 2010.

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• I just can't - I can't exist in normal group situations. A classroom, where you have to sort of jockey for position, compete for attention - I would just withdraw.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Groups, Attention, Jockeys

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• One of the big misapprehensions about mathematics that we perpetrate in our classrooms is that the teacher always seems to know the answer to any problem that is discussed.

  Leon Henkin

  Teacher, Math, Answers

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• Teachers say their schools of education did not adequately prepare them for the classroom. They would have welcomed more mentoring and feedback in their early years.

  Arne Duncan

  Teacher, School, Years

  "Ask the Teachers" by Sec. Arne Duncan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 7, 2012.

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• I'm not very good in a classroom sort of setting. I never was. I was kind of a clown in high school - got suspended a lot.

  Bobby Cannavale

  School, Kind, Clown

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• People who soar are those who refuse to sit back, sigh and wish things would change. They neither complain of their lot nor passively dream of some distant ship coming in. Rather, they visualize in their minds that they are not quitters; they will not allow life's circumstances to push them down and hold them under.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Change, Dream, People

  Charles R. Swindoll (1995). “Collected Works of Charles R. Swindoll: A Collection Consisting of Living on the Ragged Edge”, Arrowood Press

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• In outstanding classrooms, teachers do more listening than talking, and students do more talking than listening.  Terrific teachers often have teeth marks on their tongues.

  Alfie Kohn

  Teacher, Talking, Listening

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• I have such bad memories, sitting in the back of a classroom, being told, you know, everybody is going to read a paragraph, and skipping ahead to my paragraph and being mortified and trying to read it enough times so that I wouldn't stutter and stammer, getting called on, even in high school.

  Vince Flynn

  Memories, School, Trying

  "Glenn Beck: An Hour With Author Vince Flynn". "Glenn Beck", www.foxnews.com. November 20, 2009.

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• Around 80% of Liberians are unemployed and only half of all children go to primary school. Just one in 20 go on to secondary school. Young children are on the streets instead of in the classrooms. We are not giving them the opportunity to learn and they will struggle to get jobs when they grow up.

  George Weah

  Jobs, Children, Growing Up

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• Instead of being the 'font of all knowledge,' teachers are required to be effective facilitators of student learning both within and outside the classroom at any time.

  Susan Mann

  Teacher, Fonts, Students

  "The Global Search for Education: Got Tech? - Australia". Interview with C. M. Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 31, 2013.

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• I mean, if you've ever been a governor of a state, you understand the vast potential of broadband technology, you understand how hard it is to make sure that physics, for example, is taught in every classroom in the state. It's difficult to do. It's, like, cost-prohibitive.

  George W. Bush

  Mean, Technology, Example

  "The Complete Bushisms". www.slate.com. June 24, 2004.

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• You can say whatever you want; it doesn't matter. It doesn't faze me. I'll still go out and do what I have to do, whether that's making A's in the classroom or doing well on the field.

  Robert Griffin III

  Want, Matter, Fields

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• Traditionally, universities have seen size as potentially dilutive to quality. If you doubled the size of campus and faculty, most would argue that you would make it a less compelling school. However, online schools will be as good as their classroom peers only if they are large enough to afford a substantial and ongoing investment.

  John Katzman

  School, Quality, Peers

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