Classroom Quotes - Page 19

• Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been trudging up mountains, slogging through swamps, rowing down rivers. The indoor life is the next best thing to premature burial.

  Edward Abbey

  Suicidal, Journey, Should Have

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.36, RosettaBooks

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• The most successful teachers in low-income communities operate like successful leaders. They establish a vision of where their students will be performing at the end of the year that many believe to be unrealistic. They invest their students in working harder than they ever have to reach that vision, maximise their classroom time in a goal-oriented manner through purposeful planning and effective execution, reflect constantly on their progress to improve their performance over time, and do whatever it takes to overcome the many challenges they face.

  Wendy Kopp

  Teacher, Believe, Successful

  "Eight questions for Wendy Kopp". "Democracy in America", www.economist.com. April 3, 2010.

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• I think it's important to encourage young people to tell their own stories and to speak openly about their own experiences with the criminal justice system and the experiences of their family. We need to ensure that the classroom environment is a supportive one so that the shame and stigma can be dispelled.

  Michelle Alexander

  Thinking, People, Justice

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I knew that I wanted to be an illustrator since I was in kindergarten. I can remember the exact day. The art teacher usually came to our classroom once a week, but she was absent that day. Instead, our regular teacher gave us each a huge piece of paper and crayons, and we could do whatever we wanted.

  Jan Brett

  Teacher, Art, Pieces

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Schools across India do not have teachers, libraries, playing grounds and even toilets. I do not want to see empty classrooms, empty libraries. I do not want to see cattle grazing on fields meant to be cricket or football grounds.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Football, Teacher, School

  "'I am not in a race with Anna Hazare'". Interview with Shantanu Guha Ray, indiatoday.intoday.in. October 7, 2011.

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• The most reliable way to be certain of their classroom impact is through independent studies conducted by third-party organisations which compare the student growth in our corps members' classrooms to that of other teachers in similar situations.

  Wendy Kopp

  Teacher, Party, Independent

  "Eight questions for Wendy Kopp". "Democracy in America", www.economist.com. April 3, 2010.

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• The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom.

  Jon Stewart

  Networking, World, Internet Users

  "Reinventing Television". Interview with Thomas Gotez, www.wired.com. September 1, 2005.

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• I realized a school doesn't need a School Committee or Trustees or Governors or lumber or approved textbooks. All a school needs is a mind that sends and minds that receive. I shall teach my own students how to teach themselves. My own school. No buildings. Break out of the classroom prison. All I need is SKY. The Universe can be my classroom - the great vast world of the Concord countryside.

  Henry David Thoreau

  School, Sky, Mind

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• If complex organisms demand an explanation, so does a complex designer. And it's no solution to raise the theologian's plea that God (or the Intelligent Designer) is simply immune to the normal demands of scientific explanation. To do so would be to shoot yourself in the foot. You cannot have it both ways. Either ID belongs in the science classroom, in which case it must submit to the discipline required of a scientific hypothesis. Or it does not, in which case, get it out of the science classroom and send it back to church, where it belongs.

  Richard Dawkins

  Intelligent, Feet, Discipline

  "One side can be wrong" by Richard Dawkins and Jerry Coyne, www.theguardian.com. September 01, 2005.

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• Coding is the language of the future, and every girl should learn it. As I've learned from watching girls grow and learn in our classrooms, coding is fun, collaborative and creative.

  Reshma Saujani

  Girl, Fun, Creative

  Source: on.mtv.com

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• Emotions are classes in the Earth school. Some classes are about fear, and some are about love. The Universe is your tutor, and your classroom is your life. The main course in the Earth school, Authentic Power, is the same for everyone, but different students need different courses in order to complete it.

  Gary Zukav

  School, Order, Class

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Dec 03, 2015

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• Some kids, for some reason, it just doesn't click in the classroom as they need it to. We have college coaches talk to them, former high school athletes, motivational speakers, teachers, principals.

  John Towner Williams

  Teacher, Athlete, School

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• The limitations of federal laws are able to create real progress at the local level. Ultimately, to effect not just incremental progress but progress that is transformational for students, we need committed leadership - people who believe deeply that their students can achieve at the highest levels and who know how to create the conditions at the classroom, school and system level to give them the opportunities they deserve.

  Wendy Kopp

  Real, Believe, School

  Source: www.economist.com

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• This planet is a divine school, and daily life a classroom. Our choice of teachers depends on what we need to learn.

  Dan Millman

  Teacher, School, Choices

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• Creating a high-functioning education system requires all the strategies involved in building high-functioning organisations anywhere. It requires a deliberate and aggressive strategy to ensure extraordinary talent at every level of the system, from the superintendentcy to district offices to principalships to classrooms. It requires building systems for accountability; offering parents the ability to choose their public schools is the ultimate form of this. It requires building a strong culture at the system and school levels based on high expectations for student achievement.

  Wendy Kopp

  Strong, School, Creating

  Source: www.economist.com

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• Part of Washington keeping its promises is a focus on directing more dollars into our local classrooms.

  Mark Kennedy

  Focus, Promise, Dollars

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• Nothing could be more absurd than an experiment in which computers are placed in a classroom where nothing else is changed.

  Seymour Papert

  Computer, Absurd, Changed

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• As a country [USA], we can attract more talented people to teaching by raising awareness of educational inequity and getting the public to understand from individual classrooms, schools, and cities that this is an issue that can be solved.

  Wendy Kopp

  Country, Educational, Teaching

  Source: www.economist.com

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• The normal kid can differentiate between various aspects of life, but a kid with dyslexia has to connect all those dots, and they have to link it like a chain. Teachers can't incorporate that. They don't have time; it's not their fault. They don't have the resources to give personal attention to each kid in the classroom.

  Malik Yusef

  Teacher, Kids, Giving

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.

  Bill Gates

  Teacher, Children, School

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• In science, technology, engineering and mathematics, men far outnumber women in the classroom and the boardroom.

  Weili Dai

  Technology, Men, Engineering

  "Women! Embrace your inner geek" by Weili Dai, www.cnn.com. March 7, 2012.

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• Let students use technologies in the classroom.

  Weili Dai

  Technology, Use, Students

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• How would you like your child in kindergarten through 12th grade attending classes with kids who can't read, write, speak or understand English -- or American education values? Furthermore, how would you feel if those students felt zero investment in education, in English and the American way? How would you like your child's education dumbed down to that of a classroom from the Third World? Guess what? Today, if you're a parent of a child in thousands of classrooms across America, that's what's happening to your children with your tax dollars.

  Frosty Wooldridge

  Zero, Children, Kids

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• Classrooms and educations need to be places of infectious passion

  Adam Bellow

  Passion, Needs

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• To be sure, Darwin's theory of evolution is imperfect. However, the fact that a scientific theory cannot yet render an explanation on every point should not be used as a pretext to thrust an untestable alternative hypothesis grounded in religion into the science classroom or to misrepresent well-established scientific propositions.

  Jon Jones

  Theory Of Evolution, Facts, Alternatives

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