Classroom Quotes
482 quotes by 401 authors
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Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.
— Walt Disney
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Teachers support evaluations based on multiple measures: student growth, classroom observation and feedback from peers and parents.
— Arne Duncan
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Rousseau ranks among the great educational theorists of the modern era, even if he was the last man to put in charge of a classroom.…
— Terry Eagleton
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To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
— Thomas A. Edison
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I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
— Thomas A. Edison
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And that's actually the brunt of what we do is, people going straight from their workplace, straight from home, straight into the classroom and working…
— Dave Eggers
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Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions.
— Philip Emeagwali
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Science does not know its debt to imagination.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes.
— Jack Hanna
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The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
— Sydney J. Harris
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The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
— Sydney J. Harris
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I'm a comedian first. I've learned how to act. I just draw on life experiences and that's how I've learned. I didn't take classes or…
— Steve Harvey
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A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.
— Elbert Hubbard
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The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put…
— Thomas Huxley
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Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
— Thomas Huxley
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Home schooled children frequently combine for many purposes - and they interact well. The growth of the home schooling movement means that more and more…
— Ernest Istook
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We owe it to our children to equip them with all the capabilities they'll need to thrive in the limitless world beyond the classrooms.
— Naveen Jain
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The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving the brain' that…
— Naveen Jain
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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
— Thomas Jefferson
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There is no training, classroom or otherwise, that can prepare for trading the last third of a move, whether it's the end of a bull…
— Paul Tudor Jones
Who Wrote These Classroom Quotes
401 authors contributed a total of 482 Classroom Quotes, led by these top contributors: