Classroom Quotes · Page 6

The first classroom is in a mother's womb.

— Eric Adams

There are some timid souls that will never know victory nor defeat.

— Theodore Roosevelt

“In my experience, the best classroom in the world is the world itself”

— B.L. Alley

In life, the classroom is everywhere. The exam comes at the very end.

— Anna Quindlen

I'm living my dream job! My dream job is to be in the classroom.

— Jenna Bush

That amazing moment when a teacher cancels a test.

— Anonymous

A well-managed classroom is a task-oriented and predictable environment.

— Harry Wong

When I clear my calculator I press the button at least 10 times just to be sure.

— Anonymous

If the professor doesn't show up to class in the first 15 minutes, you get to leave. Somebody make that a law, please.

— Anonymous

Physically, teachers are often alone in their own classrooms with no other adults for company. Psychologically, they never are.

— Andy Hargreaves

Our educational results lag behind other states, and other nations, but worse still, behind the potential of the kids and the devoted…

— Mitch Daniels

I dedicate much of my success to what I learned inside and outside the classroom at Porter-Gaud, and I want to give…

— Khris Middleton

A man who cannot think is not an educated man however many college degrees he may have acquired.

— Henry Ford

My teacher said my brain was the size of a pea. He made my life miserable by singling me out in the…

— Willard Wigan

In schools with a history of chaos, the teacher who can keep the classroom calm becomes virtually indispensable.

— Jonathan Kozol

I have always said that if I were a rich man, I would employ a professional praiser.

— Osbert Sitwell

“A classroom is like a Greenhouse where the teacher must provide essential amenities like knowledge and life-skill with patience and empathy, control…

— Kavita Bhupta Ghosh

Schools should look behind classroom doors and determine the factors that contribute to the kinds of interactions between teachers and students that…

— James Heckman

At DonorsChoose.org, we've seen what technology can do for a classroom. We make it easy for teachers to request the materials they…

— Charles Best

When the Hyderabad Chapter of TFI approached me to be a part of their Leaders in Classroom event, I readily agreed to…

— Amala Akkineni

“There is no one-size-fits-all in education. Period. What works in my classroom works as well as it does because I feel, with…

— Stacey Roshan

There can be infinite uses of the computer and of new age technology, but if teachers themselves are not able to bring…

— Nancy Kassebaum

I realized with grief that purposeless activities in language arts are probably the burial grounds of language development and that coffins can…

— Mem Fox

I believe that education is the civil rights issue of our generation. And if you care about promoting opportunity and reducing inequality,…

— Arne Duncan

You could be a poet, an artist, a comedian - if you're in the culture of innovation then you embrace those who…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

While we bemoan the decline of literacy, computers discount words in favor of pictures and pictures in favor of video. While we…

— David Gelernter

And one more idea which may be laughed and sneered at in some supposedly sophisticated circles, but I just have to believe…

— Ronald Reagan

Well, maybe it was just that I wasn't going to like anybody because I had to work and I had to explain…

— Eddie Vedder

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

— Emily Barton

A hilarious academic novel that'll send you laughing (albeit ruefully) back into the trenches of the classroom. . . . [A] mordant…

— Maureen Corrigan

We have a dangerous trend beginning to take place in our education. We're starting to put more and more textbooks into our…

— Fisher Ames

“The most effective learning takes place in the classroom, where you can easily raise your hand, engage in spontaneous discussions with classmates…

— Ian Lamont

“By all means, learn beyond the classroom. In the end, thats all that will matter”

— Gossy Ukanwoke

The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.

— Thomas Merton

Art in the classroom not only spurs creativity, it also inspires learning.

— Mickey Hart

There is always that one class that you hate going to everyday.

— Anonymous

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Edward McKendree Bounds

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

— Ted Sizer

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

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow