Classroom Quotes · Page 5

Educators remind us that what counts in a classroom is not what the teacher teaches; it’s what the learner learns.

— Alfie Kohn

Professors rarely speak of the place of eros or the erotic in our classrooms. Trained in the philosophical context of Western metaphysical…

— Bell Hooks

If you were to sit me down in a classroom, with fluorescent lights humming and some woman trying to teach me Italian,…

— Dave Grohl

I had a bad time in school in the first grade. Because I had been a rather lonely child on a farm,…

— Beverly Cleary

Google Apps for Education is a suite of applications intended to be helpful to higher level educational institutions, but in the long…

— Vint Cerf

Crazy people who are productive are geniuses. Crazy people who are rich are eccentric. Crazy people who are neither productive nor rich…

— Michael J. Gelb

The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving…

— Naveen Jain

I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was…

— Robert Moog

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

— Peter Drucker

As the daughter of a schoolteacher, I feel very strongly that the most important thing in school takes place right there in…

— Kerry Healey

Cameras in classrooms are no substitute for greater authority by parents and teachers.

— Paul Weyrich

I never read a single book as a child. I did not read as a child. I worked on the farm. I…

— Story Musgrave

I consider this world to be like a school and our lives to be the classrooms.

— Oprah Winfrey

“Maisha yangu ni darasa. Jifunzeni kutokana na maisha yangu, jifunzeni kutokana na sifa zangu za ushupavu, jifunzeni kutokana na sifa zangu za…

— Enock Maregesi

Our education must never stop. If it ends at the door of the classroom on graduation day, we will fail. And we…

— Henry B. Eyring

You don't treat the so-called little people poorly, because we don't have any little people here! The trainers, the managers, the secretaries,…

— Anonymous

Medicine is learned by the bedside and not in the classroom. Let not your conceptions of disease come from words heard in…

— William Osler

Teaching and writing, really, they support and nourish each other, and they foster good thinking. Because when you show up in the…

— Emily Barton

I'm a few minutes late to class? Please, stare at me like I just killed five people.

— Anonymous

The worst censors are those prohibiting criticism of the theory of evolution in the classroom.

— Phyllis Schlafly

We all have that one teacher who's like: 'Don't pack up yet. There's still 11 seconds of class left...'

— Anonymous

I was sitting in the classroom trying to look intelligent in case the teacher looked at me.

— Elton John

The classroom's the last room to get the truth.

— Zack de la Rocha

We [in the MBA] get to create a situation where we're really choosing the students to join our environment based upon what…

— Robert J. Dolan

God, the source of all knowledge, should never have been expelled from our children's classrooms.

— Ronald Reagan