Grades Quotes - Page 27

• I believe that all genial classrooms share at least five characteristics that guide their instruction regardless of content or grade level. These characteristics are (1) freedom to choose, (2) open-ended exploration, (3) freedom from judgment, (4) honoring every student's experience, and (5) belief in every student's genius.

  Thomas Armstrong

  Believe, Genius, Levels

  Thomas Armstrong (1998). “Awakening Genius in the Classroom”, p.60, ASCD

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• The best way to measure how much you've grown isn't by inches or the number of laps you can now run around the track or even your grade point average - though those things are important, to be sure. It's what you've done with your time, how you've chosen to spend your days, and whom you have touched this year. That, to me, is the greatest measure of success.

  R. J. Palacio

  Running, Average, Years

  "Wonder". Book by R. J. Palacio, February 14, 2012.

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• Education is about inviting every single person who enters a school to realize his or her relatively boundless potential in all areas of worthwhile human endeavor. It is concerned with more than grades, attendance, and academic achievement. It is concerned with the process of becoming a decent and productive human being.

  William Watson Purkey

  School, Achievement, Attendance

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• There should be a course in the first grade on love.

  Andy Warhol

  Firsts, Should, Courses

  "The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again".

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• Give peace a chance, yes, but why not get serious and give it a place in the curriculum: peace courses in every school, every grade, every nation. Unless we teach our children peace, someone else will teach them violence.

  Colman McCarthy

  Children, School, Giving

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• Children don't drop out of high school when they are 16, they do so in the first grade and wait 10 years to make it official.

  Bob Keeshan

  Children, School, Years

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• If we are always reading aloud something that is more difficult than children can read themselves then when they come to that book later, or books like that, they will be able to read them - which is why even a fifth grade teacher, even a tenth grade teacher, should still be reading to children aloud. There is always something that is too intractable for kids to read on their own.

  Mem Fox

  Teacher, Children, Reading

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• Most Americans who made it past the fourth grade have a pretty good idea who Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther King, Jr., were. Not many Americans have even heard of Alice Paul, Howard W. Smith, and Martha Griffiths. But they played almost as big a role in the history of women’s rights as Marshall and King played in the history of civil rights for African-Americans. They gave women the handle to the door to economic opportunity, and nearly all the gains women have made in that sphere since the nineteen-sixties were made because of what they did.

  Louis Menand

  Kings, Past, Opportunity

  "The Sex Amendment". www.newyorker.com. July 21, 2014.

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• In the best classrooms, grades are only one of many types of feedback provided to students.

  Douglas B. Reeves

  Students, Classroom, Feedback

  Douglas B. Reeves (2009). “Leading Change in Your School: How to Conquer Myths, Build Commitment, and Get Results”, p.99, ASCD

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• The biggest problem I had - and the biggest problem teenagers have - is not how they dress, how they look or how they act or talk. It's how they see themselves - their self-esteem. In the tenth grade, I realized I am who I am. I've got big ears and big feet. I can etiher sulk around or I can be happy with who I am. The minute I decided to be confident with who I was, all that other stuff stopped. It's all in the way you carry yourself.

  Clay Aiken

  Self Esteem, Teenager, Who I Am

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• I did not think I would make the grade.

  Clive Churchill

  Thinking, Rugby League, League

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• My first memory of the Rolling Stones is listening to 'Satisfaction' at a sixth-grade slumber party at a friend's house in Ankara, Turkey, where my family was living at the time. In the middle of our sleepover, my friend's dad stopped the record when he heard the words 'girlie action!'

  Gayle King

  Memories, Dad, Party

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• . . . hummings and clickings could be heard-the sounds attendant to the flow of electrons, now augmenting one maze of electromagnetic crises to a condition that was translatable from electrical qualities and quantities to a high grade of truth.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Truth, Quality, Flow

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Player Piano”, p.118, Dial Press

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• When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so.

  Beverly Cleary

  Patience, Teacher, Reading

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• I've actually become much, much dumber through being married and having these children. I find that I'm not half as sharp that I once was. I can't even help them with their 4th and 5th grade vocabulary and math work at this point.

  Patrick Warburton

  Children, Math, Vocabulary

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If we learned all we needed to know in kindergarten, it was promptly drummed out of us in first grade.

  Peter McWilliams

  Inspirational, Firsts, Kindergarten

  "Life 101: everything we wish we had learned about life in school - but didn't".

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• The Democrats say we ought to give Barack Obama credit for trying. That sounds like the nonsense of giving every kid a trophy for showing up.
  
  Friends, we're talking about leading the country, not playing on a third-grade soccer team!
  
  I realize this is the man who got a Nobel Peace Prize for what he would potentially do, but in the real world, you get the prize for producing something, not just promising it.

  Mike Huckabee

  Soccer, Country, Real

  Mike Huckabee's Speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, www.politico.com. August 29, 2012.

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• Sir, I didn't deserve the grade you gave me on this test. Do you know a lower one?

  Milton Berle

  Assessment, Tests, Knows

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• My mom gave me a good piece of advice. She said never marry a man thinking you can change him, and I think that starts from your first date when you're in the seventh grade onwards. Women are fixers so we have to just not fix. Don't fix.

  Jennifer Garner

  Relationship, Mom, Men

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• When Paul and I were first friends, starting in the sixth grade and seventh grade, we would sing a little together and we would make up radio shows and become disc jockeys on our home wire recorder. And then came rock and roll.

  Art Garfunkel

  Home, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  "Song Talk Interview". Interview with Paul Zollo, www.artgarfunkel.com. 1990.

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• College is something you complete. Life is something you experience. So don't worry about your grade, or the results or success. Success is defined in myriad ways, and you will find it, and people will no longer be grading you, but it will come from your own internal sense of decency.

  Jon Stewart

  College, People, Worry

  Commencement Address at The College of William & Mary, delivered 21 May 2004

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• Determine a single measure that you can use to grade your progress and success in each area of your life. Refer to it daily.

  Brian Tracy

  Progress, Use, Determine

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Goals!: How to Get Everything You Want - Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.157, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I think of bad news as a huge bird, with the wings of a crow and the face of my Grade Four school teacher, sparse bun, rancid teeth, wrinkly frown, pursed mouth and all, sailing around the world under cover of darkness pleased to be the bearer of ill tidings, carrying a basket of rotten eggs, and knowing- as the sun comes up- exactly where to drop them. On me, for one.

  Margaret Atwood

  Teacher, School, Thinking

  Margaret Atwood (2008). “Moral Disorder and Other Stories”, p.5, Anchor

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• Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class.

  C. Everett Koop

  Teacher, Taken, Kids

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• We send our kids off to school to major in labeling and think the ones who do it best deserve the highest grades.

  Wayne Dyer

  Learning, School, Kids

  Dyer, Wayne (2005). “Everyday Wisdom”, p.243, Hay House, Inc

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