Classroom Quotes

• The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.

  John Ciardi

  World, Entrances, Should

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• The secret of getting ahead is getting started

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Furthermore, we believe that health care reform, again I said at the beginning of my remarks, that we sent the three pillars that the President's economic stabilization and job creation initiatives were education and innovation - innovation begins in the classroom - clean energy and climate, addressing the climate issues in an innovative way to keep us number one and competitive in the world with the new technology, and the third, first among equals I may say, is health care, health insurance reform.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Jobs, Believe, Technology

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• Home schooled children frequently combine for many purposes - and they interact well. The growth of the home schooling movement means that more and more children are learning together, just not in a traditional classroom.

  Ernest Istook

  Children, Home, Mean

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• You get on TV and you become more of a star and it makes it real hard to go back to school and sit in a classroom, put your hand up if you have a question or something.

  Owen Hart

  Stars, Real, School

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• I think we've got outstanding teaching in Michigan classrooms.

  John Engler

  Teaching, Thinking, Michigan

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• 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

  Issues, Use, Professors

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• Children are already accustomed to a world that moves faster and is more exciting than anything a teacher in front of a classroom can do.

  Major Owens

  Teacher, Children, Moving

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• In America the schools have become too permissive, the kids now are controlling the schools, the tail is wagging the dog. We've got to make a change there and get it back to where the teachers have control of the classrooms.

  Chuck Norris

  Inspirational, Teacher, Dog

  "Chuck Norris Interview — Las Vegas 1999". Interview with Geoff Thompson, magazine.fighttimes.com. April 01, 2005.

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• The opponents of my budget propose taking $200 million out of our classrooms and instead spending it on a larger school employee pay raise. Our focus should be on making sure our children come first.

  Bob Riley

  Children, School, Focus

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• Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.

  Jean Rostand

  Thinking, Computer, Computer Technology

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• A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Funny, Smile, Men

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• All of life is a constant education.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspiring, Education, Learning

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.107, Da Capo Press

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• The least of the work of learning is done in classrooms.

  Thomas Merton

  Learning, Done

  "Love and Living".

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• Maintaining order in the classrooms has never been easy and it is evident that the school setting requires some easing of the restrictions to which searches by public authorities are ordinarily subject.

  Byron White

  School, Order, Maintaining

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• We've heard from many teachers that they used episodes of Star Trek and concepts of Star Trek in their science classrooms in order to engage the students.

  Patrick Stewart

  Teacher, Stars, Science

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• While it was a very interesting period in my life, I was happy to get back to more direct contact with students in the classroom and in my research projects.

  Jerome Isaac Friedman

  Interesting, Research, Students

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• When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books.

  Norman MacCaig

  Teacher, Book, Paper

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• Cameras in classrooms are no substitute for greater authority by parents and teachers.

  Paul Weyrich

  Teacher, Parent, Cameras

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• Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.

  Walt Disney

  Life, Children, Mind

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• The Wayne Education Building was the first classroom building that we have done on the Wayne campus.

  Minoru Yamasaki

  Education, Artist, Done

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• In a time of tight budgets, difficult choices have to be made. We must make sure our very limited resources are spent on priorities. I believe we should have no higher priority than investing in our children's classrooms and in their future.

  Bob Riley

  Children, Believe, Should Have

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• Athletes who take to the classroom naturally or are encouraged to focus on grades should be able to do well in the classroom. I believe the reason you go to college is to get your degree. It's not a minor league or an audition for the pros

  Rebecca Lobo

  Believe, Athlete, College

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• The student body was huge at UT and you had to mature pretty quick, very quick actually. I enjoyed it and it helped me a lot in my life in general - not only in the classroom but on the baseball field as well.

  Roger Clemens

  Sports, Baseball, Body

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. January 26, 2006.

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• A Socrates in every classroom.

  Alfred Whitney Griswold

  1951 On his hopes for theYale faculty. In Time, 11 Jun.

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