Classroom Quotes · Page 2

Success is the reward for toil.

— Sophocles

The perfect classroom is Paris.

— Letitia Baldrige

Every pot must sit on its own bottom.

— Benjamin Franklin

A Socrates in every classroom.

— Alfred Whitney Griswold

Success is not something to wait for, it is something to work for.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The schools schedule is a series of units of time; the clock is king.

— Ted Sizer

No man can use his brain to think for another.

— Ayn Rand

Prayer is not learned in a classroom but in the closet.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

If we get the federal government out of the classroom, maybe we'll get God back in.

— Ronald Reagan

Antireligious bigotry is not confined to the classroom.

— Ralph E. Reed, Jr

Give these people money, let them play, and they'll come up with something.

— Vannevar Bush

The best brains of the nations may be found on the last benches of the classroom.

— Ritu Ghatourey

Find a group of friends that are going to push you and want you to do better whether it's in the classroom…

— Collin Sexton

One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population.

— Wendy Craig

I prefer the competitive atmosphere of a classroom setting, like yoga or Pilates. That keeps me going. Although performing on stage is…

— Dita Von Teese

I always had a weird thing with being the last person somewhere... like a movie theater or a classroom. I get a…

— Alona Tal

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

“The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

One barrier... is the impoverishment of classroom language, the failure to cultivate a common vocabulary about inquiry, explanation, argument and problem solving.

— David Perkins

I've consistently said, we need to support charter schools. I think it is important to experiment, by looking at how we can…

— Barack Obama

This kind of totalization of security consciousness [after tragedy of 9/11] has the effect within classrooms (and beyond) of constraining the imagination…

— Richard A. Falk

I didn't wanna be looked at as no idiot, and I didn't wanna feel like I was uneducated, because I really stopped…

— Nipsey Hussle

What, of course, we want in a university is for people to learn the skills they're going to need outside the classroom.…

— Alison Gopnik

There is nothing more valuable than great classroom instruction. But let's stop putting the whole burden on teachers. We also need better…

— Thomas Friedman

Television didn't transform education. Neither will the internet. But it will be another tool for teachers to use in their effort to…

— John Palfrey

Any child may go through periods during which they become less outspoken with their parents or teachers. But girls, like boys, live…

— Christina Hoff Sommers

Exposing students to lots of books and positive reading experiences while building a network of other readers who support each other provides…

— Donalyn Miller

The urban barbarism that has turned our streets into battlegrounds and our classrooms into killing fields will not be stopped by an…

— Pat Buchanan

This is a very challenging moment for educators. Our children are headed for a much more networked existence, one that allows for…

— Will Richardson

I feel like God has moved me into a different way of doing things. I teach basic on-camera acting class called Acting…

— Patricia Mauceri

God's word tells us that righteousness is a gift; it cannot be earned. But godliness is not a gift. We must pay…

— K.P. Yohannan

A wealth of knowledge is openly accessible in nature. Our ancestors knew this and embraced the natural cures found in the bosoms…

— Suzy Kassem

Create sacred spaces in the workplace as well. Classrooms, five years ago, professors would say, I don't want be a nanny to…

— Judy Woodruff

I've written in every imaginable location; a repurposed closet, the kitchen table, the bleachers while my kids had basketball practice, the front…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

I went to this massive co-ed school for the first time when I was 16. Everyone there had been together since elementary…

— Holland Roden

When you venture at life with curiosity, you can learn from anything. You learn from things that you could never maybe thought…

— Ashton Kutcher

Seeing the first question on a test and thinking, 'Yup...I'm screwed.'

— Anonymous

Character is never built in a classroom; it is built in the circumstances of life.

— Rick Warren

I die a little inside when I see the word 'explain' on a test.

— Anonymous

We cannot put a noose around another man's neck without first hanging ourselves.

— Henry David Thoreau