quotes about Classroom
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Well-roundedness comes not from sitting in a classroom but from experiencing the larger world.
-- Alex Tabarrok -
Educators remind us that what counts in a classroom is not what the teacher teaches; it’s what the learner learns.
-- Alfie KohnSource : Alfie Kohn (2006). “Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason”, p.20, Simon and Schuster
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A Socrates in every classroom.
-- Alfred Whitney GriswoldSource : 1951 On his hopes for theYale faculty. In Time, 11 Jun.
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I always had a weird thing with being the last person somewhere like a movie theater or a classroom. I get a weird sense of anxiety.
-- Alona Tal -
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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 -
Another culture can be learned in the classroom for a single term, but it can be felt from a person for a lifetime.
-- Chelsea Sexton -
Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s.
-- Clifford Stoll -
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You've GOT to teach creation science in the classroom. Scientific method demands that.
-- David Barton -
In the best classrooms, grades are only one of many types of feedback provided to students.
-- Douglas B. ReevesSource : Douglas B. Reeves (2009). “Leading Change in Your School: How to Conquer Myths, Build Commitment, and Get Results”, p.99, ASCD
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Be satisfied with nothing but your best.
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I realized if you can change a classroom, you can change a community, and if you change enough communities you can change the world.
-- Erin Gruwell -
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I'm deeply, deeply passionate about creating peace and well-being in the classroom, and well-being as a global nation.
-- Goldie -
In an effective classroom students should not only know what they are doing, they should also know why and how.
-- Harry Wong -
A well-managed classroom is a task-oriented and predictable environment.
-- Harry WongSource : Harry K. Wong, Rosemary Tripi Wong, Chelonnda Seroyer (2009). “The First Days of School: How to be an Effective Teacher”, Harry K Wong Publication
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A student of life considers the world a classroom.
-- Harvey Mackay -
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Getting results through people is a skill that cannot be learned in the classroom.
-- J. Paul Getty -
I learned to listen and listen very well. It helped me athletically and in the classroom as well.
-- Jackie Joyner-Kersee -
Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.
-- Jean Rostand -
I'm living my dream job! My dream job is to be in the classroom.
-- Jenna Bush -
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I have attention deficit disorder, so sitting in a classroom is not the best thing for me.
-- Jeremy Miller -
I'll never be considered one of the all-time greats; maybe not even one of the all-time goods. But I'm one of the all-time survivors.
-- Jim Kaat -
Lack of homework shows up in the marketplace as well as in the classroom.
-- Jim Rohn -
The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.
-- John Ciardi -
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The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom.
-- Jon Stewart -
Partisan politics has no place in the classroom.
-- Juan Cole -
Look at your life as your main career and your divine classroom.
-- Judith Orloff -
A total immersion in life offers the best classroom for learning to love.
-- Leo Buscaglia -
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The perfect classroom is Paris.
-- Letitia BaldrigeSource : Letitia Baldrige (1968). “Of Diamonds and Diplomats”, New York : Ballantine Books
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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 -
Most of the time, I don't watch classics with anybody. I have to be by myself. That's my classroom.
-- M. Night Shyamalan -
If you can create community in a classroom the kids will not drop out
-- Martin Haberman -
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If you don't have an effective teacher in front of the classroom, you won't change the trajectory for students.
-- Melinda Gates -
A leader can't make excuses. There has to be quality in everything you do. Off the court, on the court, in the classroom.
-- Michael Jordan -
The future of our country is not found in our boardrooms, but in our classrooms.
-- Michael Milken -
It's the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom.
-- Michael MorpurgoSource : "The class system: Michael Morpurgo's schooldays" by Michael Morpurgo, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2012.
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Public education grants secular worldviews an exclusive monopoly in the classroom.
-- Nancy Pearcey -
Universities won't survive. The future is outside the traditional campus, outside the traditional classroom. Distance learning is coming on fast.
-- Peter Drucker -
The worst censors are those prohibiting criticism of the theory of evolution in the classroom.
-- Phyllis Schlafly -
Books have been my classroom and my confidant. Books have widened my horizons. Books have comforted me in my hardest times. Books have changed my life.
-- Po BronsonSource : Po Bronson (2013). “What Should I Do With My Life?”, p.382, Random House
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I didn't think the teachers had the right to tell me what to do. I would just disobey, talk in the classroom, get very bad grades.
-- Rachel Weisz -
Antireligious bigotry is not confined to the classroom.
-- Ralph E. Reed, Jr. -
The style of flirtation specific to classrooms was of service to the students all their lives.
-- Renata Adler -
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Education doesn't just take place in stuffy classrooms and university buildings, it can happen everywhere, every day to every person.
-- Richard Branson -
I'm a teacher still, but with a much larger classroom.
-- Rick Riordan -
Productivity is going to be a critical issue. And it's not just about getting more time for professors in the classroom. It involves reexamining the learning experience and restructuring faculty and the use of faculty time.
-- Roy Romer -
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You cannot afford to confine your studies to the classroom. The universe and all of history is your classroom.
-- Stella Adler -
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 MusgraveSource : "NASA Distinguished Service Medal". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.
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The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.
-- Ted Nelson -
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The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.
-- Thomas Merton -
On my first day teaching my own classroom, I threw up before I entered the building.
-- Tim Gunn -
Produce results on the mat AND in the classroom.
-- Tom BrandsSource : "University Of Iowa Wrestling Media Conference". www.asapsports.com. November 6, 2014.
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The classroom's the last room to get the truth.
-- Zack de la Rocha -
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As a professor, millennials intrigued me. I see them as engagement ready - plug-n-play if you will. They want to contribute in the classroom, the workplace and to society.
-- Chip EspinozaSource : Source: bobmorris.biz
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I feel vulnerable every single time I step into a classroom. I feel completely exposed.
-- Colleen SaidmanSource : "A Conversation with Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman Yee". Interview with Rachel P. Goldstein, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
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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. DriskellSource : Source: www.aaa.si.edu
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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 McKessonSource : Source: www.progressive.org
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As I continue to teach, I have more to offer my students, and as I continue to teach, I have more to learn from my students. I do know some writers who feel very drained when they leave the classroom, and for me this would be a sign that maybe it's time to take a break or refocus because I always leave the classroom even more excited than I was when I walked in.
-- Emily BartonSource : Source: therumpus.net
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Classrooms and educations need to be places of infectious passion
-- Adam Bellow -
Too many vital education dollars that should be spent in the classroom are bouncing around in the federal bureaucracy.
-- Mark Kennedy -
If they believe only what they can see, why do we have classrooms?
-- Yul Brynner -