Classroom Quotes - Page 15

• The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.

  Thomas Huxley

  Perseverance, Men, Feet

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1893). “Selected works of Thomas H. Huxley”

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• We owe it to our children to equip them with all the capabilities they'll need to thrive in the limitless world beyond the classrooms.

  Naveen Jain

  Children, Needs, World

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• There is no training, classroom or otherwise, that can prepare for trading the last third of a move, whether it's the end of a bull market or the end of a bear market.

  Paul Tudor Jones

  Moving, Training, Bulls

  Institutional Investor Interview, www.institutionalinvestor.com. June 30, 2008.

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• You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

  Charles Kettering

  Time, Science, Progress

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• I once made a check of all books in my fourth-grade classroom. Of the slightly more than six hundred books, almost one quarter had been published prior to the bombing of Hiroshima; 60 percent were either ten years old or older.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Book, Years, Six

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• Official motto of the White House economic team: Those who can, do. Those who can't, fantasize in the classroom, fail in Washington and then return to the Ivy Tower to train the next generation of egghead economic saboteurs. Life is good for left-wing academics. Everyone else pays dearly.

  Michelle Malkin

  Team, Life Is Good, Ivy

  "Obama's Egghead Economic Saboteurs" by Michelle Malkin, www.realclearpolitics.com. June 8, 2011.

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• Heroes represent the best of ourselves, respecting that we are human beings. A hero can be anyone from Gandhi to your classroom teacher, anyone who can show courage when faced with a problem. A hero is someone who is willing to help others in his or her best capacity.

  Ricky Martin

  Teacher, Hero, Helping Others

  "Ricky Martin giving a voice to exploited children". "CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute" with Anderson Cooper, www.cnn.com. November 16, 2010.

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• If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Love, Inspirational, Positive

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• I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Funny, Success, Motivation

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• Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Sweet, People, Smarter

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• The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him.

  H. Rap Brown

  Teacher, Jobs, Teaching

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• The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Speech at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 6 Sept. 1943

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• Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Trust, Risk, Chance

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• I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Reading, School, Kids

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• The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

  Quentin Crisp

  Success, Moving, Character

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• Teachers support evaluations based on multiple measures: student growth, classroom observation and feedback from peers and parents.

  Arne Duncan

  Teacher, Parent, Support

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

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• Rousseau ranks among the great educational theorists of the modern era, even if he was the last man to put in charge of a classroom. Young adults, he thought, should be allowed to develop their capabilities in their distinctive way.

  Terry Eagleton

  Educational, Men, Adults

  "What would Rousseau make of our selfish age?" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2012.

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• To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Science, Imagination Creativity

  "Behavior-Based Robotics". Book by Ronald C. Arkin, 1998.

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• Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.

  John C. Maxwell

  Clever, Today, Tomorrow

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• When you start one of these programs, school lunch programs, in a country that heretofore had nothing of that kind, immediately school enrollment jumps dramatically. Girls and boys get to the classroom with the promise of a good meal once a day.

  George McGovern

  Girl, Country, School

  "Ex-Senator seeks more food aid funding" by Dirk Lammers, usatoday30.usatoday.com. September 25, 2007.

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• It would be great if politics were fact-based, but it is not, and it is surely not nuance-based. What works in a classroom or a think tank does not work on Capitol Hill or in the White House. Obama sometimes seems to be running the Brookings Institution, not the country.

  Jon Meacham

  Running, Country, Thinking

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• we left about midnight and walked down the hill in silence. the night was muggy, and all around me i felt the same pressure, a sense of time rushing by while it seemed to be standing still. whenever i thought of time in puerto rico, i was reminded of those old magnetic clocks that hung on the walls of my classrooms in high school. every now and then a hand would not move for several minutes -- and if i watched it long enough, wondering if it had finally broken down, the sudden click of the hand jumping three for four notches would startle me when it came.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Wall, Moving, School

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Rum Diary: A Novel”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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• As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Life, Success, Congratulations

  "Set course: Information management" by Miles Brignall, www.theguardian.com. May 9, 2003.

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• It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  John Wooden, Jack Tobin, Bill Walton (2004). “They Call Me Coach”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• A few weeks later, I’m in a fluorescent-lit classroom in Chelsea awaiting the start of the official Mensa test. I’m sitting next to a guy who’s doing a series of elaborate neck stretches, like we’re about to engage in a vigorous rugby match. He’s neatly laid out four types of gum on his Formica desk: Juicy Fruit, Wrigley Spearmint, Big Red, and Eclipse. I hate this guy. I hope to God he’s not a genius.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Hate, Guy, Genius

  A. J. Jacobs (2004). “The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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