Classroom Quotes
482 quotes by 401 authors
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We've heard from many teachers that they used episodes of Star Trek and concepts of Star Trek in their science classrooms in order to engage…
— Patrick Stewart
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Hoping to instill my love of learning in other children, I taught my first class at a local elementary school the year my first book,…
— Adora Svitak
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Schools across India do not have teachers, libraries, playing grounds and even toilets. I do not want to see empty classrooms, empty libraries. I do…
— Sachin Tendulkar
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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.
— Mark Twain
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The unions say 'last hired - first fired,', we say hire and fire based on merit. We want the best and brightest in the classroom.
— Scott Walker
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Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I…
— Thomas J. Watson
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I didn't think the teachers had the right to tell me what to do. I would just disobey, talk in the classroom, get very bad…
— Rachel Weisz
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I was always making my friends laugh, but I never wanted the attention of the whole classroom.
— Steven Wright
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The Wayne Education Building was the first classroom building that we have done on the Wayne campus.
— Minoru Yamasaki
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September 11 We thought we'd outdistanced history Told our children it was nowhere near; Even when history struck Columbine, It didn't happen here. We took…
— Richard Peck
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we left about midnight and walked down the hill in silence. the night was muggy, and all around me i felt the same pressure, a…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.
— John Wooden
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A few weeks later, I’m in a fluorescent-lit classroom in Chelsea awaiting the start of the official Mensa test. I’m sitting next to a guy…
— A. J. Jacobs
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Home is a child's first and most important classroom.
— Hillary Clinton
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I entered the classroom with the conviction that it was crucial for me and every other student to be an active participant, not a passive…
— Bell Hooks
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Feminist education — the feminist classroom — is and should be a place where there is a sense of struggle, where there is visible acknowledgment…
— Bell Hooks
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You need to be more careful, or you could hurt yourself." Right. Thank you, Mrs. Detweiler. I never would have come to that conclusion by…
— Janette Rallison
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The future teachers I try to recruit are those show have refused to let themselves be neutered in this way, either in their private lives…
— Jonathan Kozol
Who Wrote These Classroom Quotes
401 authors contributed a total of 482 Classroom Quotes, led by these top contributors: