Classroom Quotes
482 quotes by 401 authors
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One of the big misapprehensions about mathematics that we perpetrate in our classrooms is that the teacher always seems to know the answer to any…
— Leon Henkin
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I don't think college is for everyone. School is awesome, but for me, I was learning a lot more outside the classroom in the real…
— Blake Mycoskie
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Cameras in classrooms are no substitute for greater authority by parents and teachers.
— Paul Weyrich
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It is commonly agreed that children spend more hours per year watching television than in the classroom, and far less in actual conversation with their…
— Paul Weyrich
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God's word tells us that righteousness is a gift; it cannot be earned. But godliness is not a gift. We must pay a price to…
— K.P. Yohannan
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The church is not a theological classroom. It is a conversion, confession, repentance, reconciliation, forgiveness and sanctification center, where flawed people place their faith in…
— Paul David Tripp
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Any idea can be brought into the classroom if the point is to inquire into its structure, history, influence and so forth. But no idea…
— Stanley Fish
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The style of flirtation specific to classrooms was of service to the students all their lives.
— Renata Adler
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The most elusive knowledge of all is self-knowledge and it is usually acquired laboriously through experience outside the classroom.
— Mirra Komarovsky
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Pedagogy of the Oppressed resonated with progressive educators, already committed to a 'child-centered' rather than a 'teacher-directed' approach to classroom instruction. Freire's rejection of teaching…
— Sol Stern
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I believe that education is the civil rights issue of our generation. And if you care about promoting opportunity and reducing inequality, the classroom is…
— Arne Duncan
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I am as fond of colorful language as anyone, but I try not to inflict it upon strangers. I suspect many people sense they should…
— Roger Ebert
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There are two versions of math in the lives of many Americans: the strange and boring subject that they encountered in classrooms and an interesting…
— Jo Boaler
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I consider this world to be like a school and our lives to be the classrooms.
— Oprah Winfrey
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More than once I've had discussions with persons who say things based on a misunderstanding. 'Oh you Catholics worship images.' No we don't, 'yes you…
— John Corapi
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Mathematicians use intuition, conjecture and guesswork all the time except when they are in the classroom.
— Joseph Warren
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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…
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with…
— Norman MacCaig
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The best classroom of all times was about two car lengths behind Juan Manuel Fangio.
— Stirling Moss
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I'm a 34-year-old NBA center. I'm black. And I'm gay. I didn't set out to be the first openly gay athlete playing in a major…
— Jason Collins
Who Wrote These Classroom Quotes
401 authors contributed a total of 482 Classroom Quotes, led by these top contributors: