Classrooms Quotes

82 quotes by 71 authors

I refuse to accept that the world is so poor, when just one week of global spending on armies is enough to bring all of… — Kailash Satyarthi
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
To work for better understanding among people, one does not have to be a former president sitting at a fancy conference room table. Peace can… — Jimmy Carter
In outstanding classrooms, teachers do more listening than talking, and students do more talking than listening. Â Terrific teachers often have teeth marks on their tongues. — Alfie Kohn
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
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
In the autumn of 1970 I had a job singing in the school system, playing my guitar in classrooms. — Don McLean
Far from making peace, wars invariably serve as classrooms and laboratories where men and techniques and states of mind are prepared for the next war. — Wendell Berry
The next generation of innovators, who need neutrality the most, are not at the bargaining table. They're hard at work in their labs or classrooms,… — Edward Felten
A third place to build the Great Society is in the classrooms of America. There your children's lives will be shaped. Our society will not… — Lyndon B. Johnson
In many places, classrooms are overcrowded and curricula are outdated. Most of our qualified teachers are underpaid, and many of our paid teachers are unqualified.… — Lyndon B. Johnson
But more classrooms and more teachers are not enough. We must seek an educational system which grows in excellence as it grows in size. This… — Lyndon B. Johnson
In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might… — Stephen Jay Gould
Our educational results lag behind other states, and other nations, but worse still, behind the potential of the kids and the devoted teachers in our… — Mitch Daniels
Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children. — Walt Disney
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
In America the schools have become too permissive, the kids now are controlling the schools, the tail is wagging the dog. We've got to make… — Chuck Norris
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
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
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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