Classroom Quotes
482 quotes by 401 authors
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Bad art was as good as good art. Grammar and spelling were no longer important. To be clean was no better than to be filthy.…
— Norman Tebbit
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I didn't drink in the essence of the classroom. I didn't take legible notes or dance all night. I thought I would marry my boyfriend…
— Lena Dunham
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Shall I describe the happiness it gave me to go into the classroom and pick up the chalk? ... It seemed to me the supreme,…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Living, just by itself --what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you...
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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A country's competitiveness starts not on the factory floor or in the engineering lab. It starts in the classroom.
— Lee Iacocca
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I was sitting in the classroom trying to look intelligent in case the teacher looked at me.
— Elton John
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Schools ought to teach students to challenge secular ideologies masquerading as science in the classroom.
— Nancy Pearcey
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Any child may go through periods during which they become less outspoken with their parents or teachers. But girls, like boys, live in many different…
— Christina Hoff Sommers
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Around 80% of Liberians are unemployed and only half of all children go to primary school. Just one in 20 go on to secondary school.…
— George Weah
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I have attention deficit disorder, so sitting in a classroom is not the best thing for me.
— Jeremy Miller
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In the autumn of 1970 I had a job singing in the school system, playing my guitar in classrooms.
— Don McLean
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Success is the reward for toil.
— Sophocles
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I'll never be considered one of the all-time greats; maybe not even one of the all-time goods. But I'm one of the all-time survivors.
— Jim Kaat
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I had a bad time in school in the first grade. Because I had been a rather lonely child on a farm, but I was…
— Beverly Cleary
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In a way, education by its nature favours the extrovert because you are taking kids and putting them into a big classroom, which is automatically…
— Susan Cain
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I am basically the sort of person who has stage-fright teaching. I kind of creep into a classroom. I'm not an anecdote-teller, either, although I…
— Lydia Davis
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I have such bad memories, sitting in the back of a classroom, being told, you know, everybody is going to read a paragraph, and skipping…
— Vince Flynn
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Democratic politicians want to solve the crisis of poor education by taking more of your money and using it to reduce classroom sizes in the…
— Harry Browne
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Bringing nature into the classroom can kindle a fascination and passion for the diversity of life on earth and can motivate a sense of responsibility…
— David Attenborough
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I love the classroom.
— Stephanie Herseth Sandlin
Who Wrote These Classroom Quotes
401 authors contributed a total of 482 Classroom Quotes, led by these top contributors: