Classroom Quotes - Page 20

• Create sacred spaces in the workplace as well. Classrooms, five years ago, professors would say, I don't want be a nanny to my students. They can do whatever they want. Now professors are saying, put away that laptop, because studies show that it not only takes away the attention of the person who's on the laptop from the class, but everyone around them. There's like a circle around that person that's distracted and not paying attention.

  Judy Woodruff

  Years, Class, Circles

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• My goal in the classroom was always to make sure they were having so much fun that they didn't realize they were learning.

  Rick Riordan

  Fun, Goal, Realizing

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• Teaching and writing, really, they support and nourish each other, and they foster good thinking. Because when you show up in the classroom, you may have on the mantle of authority, but in fact, you're just a writer helping other writers think through their problems. Your experience with the problems you've tried to solve comes into play in how you try to teach them to solve their problems.

  Emily Barton

  Teaching, Writing, Helping Others

  Source: therumpus.net

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• As an actor in the classroom, you're revealing so much, and teachers are, you know, they're just critiquing like a painting or a piece of work; it's like, it's you, and it's your emotions that they're working with.

  James Franco

  Teacher, Actors, Pieces

  "James Franco: The Method Of 'Milk'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. March 27, 2009.

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• Everyone has been to school. Everyone has a sense of classroom dynamics and politics, regardless of subject matter. And if you've lived long enough, everyone hits a big life transition.

  Tommy Dewey

  School, Long, Transition

  Source: collider.com

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• I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up.

  Nipsey Hussle

  Ignorant, Different, Subjects

  "Interview: Nipsey Hussle Talks African Roots, Snoop Dogg Co-Sign, and Rappers Reppin' Gangs". Interview with Toshitaka Kondo, www.complex.com. April 1, 2010.

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• Monica Langley has a great piece in The Wall Street Journal about how they're trying to create different kinds of moments for Donald Trump, as opposed to just him shouting at rallies. They're trying to get him in classrooms, and in churches, and in diners and places where he can make a more personal connection.

  Bill Burton

  Wall, Church, Trying

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If they believe only what they can see, why do we have classrooms?

  Yul Brynner

  Believe, Ifs

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• A basically dishonest man can survive longer in the church or the classroom than he can in the grain exchange or the furniture business.

  Benjamin A. Rogge

  Men, Church, Furniture

  Benjamin A. Rogge (1979). “Can Capitalism Survive?”, Liberty Fund

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• If religion and churches are truly threats to our liberties, how did those liberties survive, and in such healthy condition, all those years of classroom prayer and Bible-reading?

  William Murchison

  Christian, Religious, Prayer

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• When I was at home, I wasn't shy. I was the clown at home, because I was loved. It was in the outside world that I was judged and I wasn't loved. That was very clear to me, that I wasn't loved. So I became very quiet. You know, those little girls you see in those pictures that look like they want to hunch, I was trying to disappear into my shoulder blades. The quietest person in the classroom, that was me. But that wasn't me at home.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Girl, Home, Trying

  "Talking in Our Pajamas". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. Summer, 2008.

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• I feel vulnerable every single time I step into a classroom. I feel completely exposed.

  Colleen Saidman

  Steps, Vulnerable, Feels

  "A Conversation with Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman Yee". Interview with Rachel P. Goldstein, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• A student of life considers the world a classroom.

  Harvey Mackay

  World, Students

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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

  Teaching, Students, Difficult

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• I've received more and more emails from teachers saying that they are beginning to teach presence in their classroom without necessarily calling it that or calling it anything, not as part of the official curriculum. It's like an underground movement not yet officially recognized by the educational authorities - at least not as far as I know!

  Eckhart Tolle

  Teacher, Educational, Email

  "Eckhart Tolle & Barnet Bain on Bringing Mindfulness to the Movies". Awaken interview, www.awaken.com. January 7, 2014.

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• When the Irish nun said to me, "Speak your name loud and clear so that all the boys and girls can hear you," she was asking me to use language publicly, with strangers. That's the appropriate instruction for a teacher to give. If she were to say to me, "We are going to speak now in Spanish, just like you do at home. You can whisper anything you want to me, and I am going to call you by a nickname, just like your mother does," that would be inappropriate. Intimacy is not what classrooms are about.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Girl, Mother, Teacher

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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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 Barton

  Would Be, Students, Excited

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.7, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• How do you remember everything from different books when you are still writing the HP series? As obsessive fans will tell you, I do slip up! Several classrooms move floors mysteriously between books and these are the least serious continuity errors! Most of the fansites will point you in the direction of my mistakes. But the essentials remain consistent from book to book because the story has been plotted for a long time and it is clear in my mind.

  J. K. Rowling

  Mistake, Moving, Book

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• Rarely do outside of school remedies work their way into the fabric of the schools or into the teachers lives, and more rarely into the classrooms. Therefore they only offer a modest hope of influencing the basic culture of the school

  Roland Barthes

  Teacher, School, Culture

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• Wherever possible, home is by far the best nest until at least eight, ten or twelve. Psychologists and psychiatrists who understand child development would prefer an even later age. In a reasonably warm home, parent-child responses, the true ABC's of sound education, are likely to be a hundred times more frequent than the average teacher-child responses in a classroom.

  Dorothy Moore

  Teacher, Children, Home

  Raymond Moore, Dorothy Moore (1989). “Homestyle Teaching”, W Publishing Group

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• I've written in every imaginable location; a repurposed closet, the kitchen table, the bleachers while my kids had basketball practice, the front seat of the car when they were at soccer. In airports. On trains. In the break room when I was supposed to be wolfing down dinner. In the back of classrooms when I was supposed to be paying attention.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Basketball, Soccer, Kids

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• Undoubtedly, there are kids with intellectual deficiencies or neurological problems. But a lot of kids shunted into special education classes are deficient only in a willingness to conform to the school pattern.They are just honest, brave kids who say, "I just won't take that, and I don't believe in what you're doing." If you give them an alternative to the usual classroom, they break free of a lot of inhibitions and bad associations, and they begin to learn.

  Seymour Papert

  Believe, School, Kids

  "Sunday Interview - Seymour Papert/ Computers in the Lives of Our Children/ an Mit Mathematician and Philosopher Is Exploring How Technology Can Educate the Next Generation - and Their Parents". www.sfgate.com. February 2, 1997.

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• The idea that you can take smart but inexperienced 25-year-olds who never managed anything and turn them into effective managers via two years of classroom training is ludicrous.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Smart, Years, Ideas

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• Now I realize that I have to let everyone take what they have to take from the film. No matter what I think about the film, it becomes a little irrelevant. I think I would say that the film is trying to show us that - and I spoke about that earlier - we have to let the teachers invest in their own classroom. There's no use in trying to control everything. Education is fundamental.

  Philippe Falardeau

  Teacher, Thinking, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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