Classroom Quotes - Page 25

• Teaching and writing have tended to proceed on parallel lines, but there have been times when there was indeed carry-over from the classroom to the creative work.

  Adam Kirsch

  Teaching, Writing, Creative

  Source: harvardmagazine.com

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• People who spend their working hours in a lab or research library or a classroom might be intent primarily on keeping or advancing their elite positions, thereby lending tacit support to power structures. Or they might not be.

  Noam Chomsky

  People, Support, Library

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• If you can create community in a classroom the kids will not drop out

  Martin Haberman

  Kids, Community, Ifs

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• Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience?

  Thomas J. Watson

  Business, Mistake, Fire

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• Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

  Mark Twain

  Time, Advice, Literature

  Mark Twain (2000). “The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories”, p.104, Book Tree

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• Universities won't survive. The future is outside the traditional campus, outside the traditional classroom. Distance learning is coming on fast.

  Peter Drucker

  Distance, Campus, University

  "I got my degree through E-mail" by Lisa Gubernick, Ebeling, www.forbes.com. June 16, 1997.

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• Let us become the first generation to decide to be the last that sees empty classrooms, lost childhoods and wasted potential

  Malala Yousafzai

  Childhood, Generations, Lasts

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• The courtroom is one instance of the fact that while our society may be liberal and democratic in some large and vague sense, its moving parts, its smaller chambers--its classrooms, its workplaces, its corporate boardrooms, its jails, its military barracks--are flagrantly undemocratic, dominated by one commanding person or a tiny elite of power.

  Howard Zinn

  Military, Moving, Jail

  Howard Zinn (2010). “You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times”, p.151, Beacon Press

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• How late is it? How long have we been sitting here? I look at my watch – three thirty and the day is almost ending. It’s October. All those kids recently returned to classrooms with new bags and pencil cases will be looking forward to half term already. How quickly it goes. Halloween soon, then firework night. Christmas. Spring. Easter. Then there’s my birthday in May. I’ll be seventeen. How long can I stave it off? I don’t know. All I know is that I have two choices – stay wrapped in blankets and get on with dying, or get the list back together and get on with living.

  Jenny Downham

  Easter, Halloween, Spring

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• It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life. Towards this end, experiments on living animals in classrooms should be stopped. To encourage cruelty in the name of science can only destroy the finer emotions of affection and sympathy, and breed an unfeeling callousness in the young towards suffering in all living creatures.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Respect, Nature, Children

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• Teachers craft classrooms that are good matches for their teaching styles as well as for learner needs.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Teacher, Teaching, Style

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• My obligation is to focus on the priorities of classroom instruction, parental involvement and student safety, targeting student performance and eliminating unnecessary administrative costs.

  John R. Leopold

  Safety, Focus, Priorities

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• There is a great sense of community within the Montessori classroom, where children of differing ages work together in an atmosphere of cooperation rather than competitiveness. There is respect for the environment and for the individuals within it, which comes through experience of freedom within the community.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Community, Atmosphere

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• God makes no mistakes. In all our trials and dramas there are lessons. Life is not a playground but a classroom. Our journey through life provides the course work and the tests needed for our education and development.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Mistake, Life Lesson, Drama

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• The best classroom of all times was about two car lengths behind Juan Manuel Fangio.

  Stirling Moss

  Two, Car, Racing

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• My best life lessons and education didn't come from a classroom - they've come from the wild. How you act in the big moments, the ones that challenge you, scare you, tempt you, and force you to make the right decisions, is what defines you.

  Bear Grylls

  Motivational, Education, Life Lesson

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• What are you doing here? Tell me why you are here. If you are not here to win a national championship, you're in the wrong place. You boys are special. I don't want my players to be like other students. I want special people. You can learn a lot on the football field that isn't taught in the home, the church, or the classroom. There are going to be days when you think you've got no more to give and then you're going to give plenty more. You are going to have pride and class. You are going to be very special. You are going to win the national championship for Alabama.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Football, Believe

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• With the states release today of a set of clear and consistent academic standards, our nation is one step closer to supporting effective teaching in every classroom, charting a path to college and careers for all students, and developing the tools to help all children stay motivated and engaged in their own education. The more states that adopt these college and career based standards, the closer we will be to sharing innovation across state borders and becoming more competitive as a country.

  Bill Gates

  Country, Children, Educational

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• People with education get out of the classroom as soon as they can and jump into administration or higher ed, there just needs to be some motivating factor for teachers to stay in the classrooms and excel. It's that simple.

  Raheem Jarbo

  Teacher, Simple, People

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• I never lose sight of the fact that before I was a writer, I was a teacher. I still am. My classroom's just gotten a little bigger.

  Jodi Picoult

  Teacher, Sight, Littles

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.592, Simon and Schuster

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• Women who earn a certificate or degree from a community college, especially in STEM-related field, will be ready to move into a good-paying job in the growing global economy. Community colleges also offer mentorship and support that goes far beyond the classroom.

  Jill Biden

  Jobs, Moving, College

  Source: on.mtv.com

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• A total immersion in life offers the best classroom for learning to love.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Life, Courage, Learning

  "Love". Book by Leo Buscaglia, 1972.

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• Examples of hostility toward religious values and those who hold them abound... This antireligious bigotry is not confined to the classroom.

  Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

  Christian, Religious, Example

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• Antireligious bigotry is not confined to the classroom.

  Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

  Christian, Religious, Confined

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• I don't want to deal with problems, and so you want to make sure that you don't give yourself problems by not doing your homework and maybe trying to take a kid that's got great ability but isn't going to get it done in the classroom.

  Mike Candrea

  Softball, Education, Children

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