Classroom Quotes
482 quotes by 401 authors
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We cannot put a noose around another man's neck without first hanging ourselves.
— Henry David Thoreau
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No man can use his brain to think for another.
— Ayn Rand
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A Socrates in every classroom.
— Alfred Whitney Griswold
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We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere.
— Major Owens
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Partisan politics has no place in the classroom.
— Juan Cole
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While it was a very interesting period in my life, I was happy to get back to more direct contact with students in the classroom…
— Jerome Isaac Friedman
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You get on TV and you become more of a star and it makes it real hard to go back to school and sit in…
— Owen Hart
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One of my earliest memories... I knew three full verses of the Star Spangled Banner when I was seven or eight years old. And one…
— Dave Van Ronk
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When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As a result, I was not…
— Philip Emeagwali
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I never read a single book as a child. I did not read as a child. I worked on the farm. I had books in…
— Story Musgrave
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Remember the picture of the president in the classroom, being told of the attack by chief of staff Andy Card? The American people thought they…
— Howard Fineman
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All battles are won before they start.
— Sun Tzu
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The schools schedule is a series of units of time; the clock is king.
— Ted Sizer
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Half of what you will accomplish in a day will be determined before you leave home. Three quarters of what you achieve will be determined…
— Harry Wong
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Schools should look behind classroom doors and determine the factors that contribute to the kinds of interactions between teachers and students that promote student achievement.
— James Heckman
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Traditional education focuses on teaching, not learning. It incorrectly assumes that for every ounce of teaching there is an ounce of learning by those who…
— Russell L. Ackoff
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Give these people money, let them play, and they'll come up with something.
— Vannevar Bush
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Inspiration can be found in a pile of junk. Sometimes, you can put it together with a good imagination and invent something.
— Thomas A. Edison
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Scientific progress on a broad front results from the free play of free intellects, working on subjects of their own choice, in the manner dictated…
— Vannevar Bush
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So we find that the three possible solutions of the great problem of increasing human energy are answered by the three words: food, peace, work...Their…
— Nikola Tesla
Who Wrote These Classroom Quotes
401 authors contributed a total of 482 Classroom Quotes, led by these top contributors: