Best 113 quotes in «classroom quotes» category

There are some lessons you can never find in a classroom, hence you need to learn from every person and every situation that you encounter.

The value of the student’s question is supreme. The best initial response to a question is not to answer it, per se, but to validate it, protect it, support it, and make a space for it. Like a blossom just emerging, a question is vulnerable and delicate. A direct answer can extinguish a question if you’re not careful. But if you nourish the blossom, it will grow and give fruit in the form of insight as well as more questions. In short, a question needs to be nurtured more than answered. It should be given center stage, admired, relished, embraced, and sustained.

The teaching philosophy of most companies today is similar to that of the schools I went to – lots of people sitting in a classroom, with an expert up front telling you things. I’ve always thought that if that was the natural way for people to learn, we ought to see four-year-olds spontaneously forming themselves into rows.

We are not perfect. We are here to learn. Earth is one big classroom and God is our heavenly guidance counselor and teacher.

They say that wisdom is a dying flower, and I disagree. In a world covered in mud, the lotus still continues to grow. Even after mankind washes itself away from the surface of the earth, knowledge will still remain. Look no further than the bosom of Nature. It offers all the solutions needed to cure and unite humanity. Wise men only exist as interpreters and transmitters of Truth. Their time on earth is limited, but Nature's existence is eternal. Open books shall always exist for those with an opened eye and pure heart; for Truth can only be seen by those with truth in them.

Would you rather have your child in a room with the best equipment in the world with an average teacher or an empty room with Socrates?

What makes you think that the classroom in school is different from others... "It's one large and big as a size!" Okay... I could have a room which is large and big like a classroom for making films, so what?? This room which I just made for the films... now is a classroom?? "It have in the corner a bin...", Okay that's ridiculous, that it have a bin there doesn't mean that I can't also put one bin at the corner... nobody has said that the bin can't stay somewhere in corners... so you are saying that mine room is a classroom??... "It have special tables and chairs... for the students". Okay, I have also such stuff at home for my computer... and when is about many I could few more computers + the special stuff and what???... I can even invite students from a school so I have the most stuff, so what does it make it different?

A basically dishonest man can survive longer in the church or the classroom than he can in the grain exchange or the furniture business.

Acting was my classroom in many ways and I always believed and I still do that acting is not just about pretending to be someone else, it's also about discovering yourself and reaching deeper inside yourself.

A leader can't make excuses. There has to be quality in everything you do. Off the court, on the court, in the classroom.

And you get Thomas Paine, who's the least religious Founding Father saying, you've got to teach creation science in the classroom. Scientific method demands that.

Another culture can be learned in the classroom for a single term, but it can be felt from a person for a lifetime.

Antireligious bigotry is not confined to the classroom.

As a professor, millennials intrigued me. I see them as engagement ready - plug-n-play if you will. They want to contribute in the classroom, the workplace and to society.

Baseball is a religion in my classroom. It's a very important part of life, baseball.

As I continue to teach, I have more to offer my students, and as I continue to teach, I have more to learn from my students. I do know some writers who feel very drained when they leave the classroom, and for me this would be a sign that maybe it's time to take a break or refocus because I always leave the classroom even more excited than I was when I walked in.

A well-managed classroom is a task-oriented and predictable environment.

Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions.

Begin now what you will be hereafter.

Be satisfied with nothing but your best.

Cameras in classrooms are no substitute for greater authority by parents and teachers.

Books have been my classroom and my confidant. Books have widened my horizons. Books have comforted me in my hardest times. Books have changed my life.

When we think about learning, we typically focus on getting information into students’ heads. What if, instead, we focus on getting information out of students’ heads?

Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.

Computers have virtually replaced tape recorders.

Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s.

Do not go through life like leaf blown from here to there believing whatever you are told.

Educators remind us that what counts in a classroom is not what the teacher teaches; it’s what the learner learns.

Free speech is what we all have and is guaranteed by the First Amendment of the US Constitution. Academic freedom refers to what happens in the university, particularly in the classroom, and to the importance of the teacher having the right to teach and share what he or she has learned, has proven her competence to teach, having gone through a series of tests and certifications including research and writing to demonstrate her abilities and knowledge.

Every pot must sit on its own bottom.

Freedom of speech is about expressing your opinion, however bad or good, however right or wrong, and being able to defend it and argue it and be argued with about it in public forums. But that's not what academic freedom is about. That's not what the classroom is about.

He that cannot obey, cannot command.

He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.

God, the source of all knowledge, should never have been expelled from our children's classrooms.

He that will not stoop for a pin will never be worth a pound.

If we get the federal government out of the classroom, maybe we'll get God back in.

I always had a weird thing with being the last person somewhere like a movie theater or a classroom. I get a weird sense of anxiety.

I feel vulnerable every single time I step into a classroom. I feel completely exposed.

I find teaching - I like it, but I find just walking into the classroom and facing the students very difficult.

If you don't have an effective teacher in front of the classroom, you won't change the trajectory for students.

If you do it right 51 percent of the time you will end up a hero.

I'll never be considered one of the all-time greats; maybe not even one of the all-time goods. But I'm one of the all-time survivors.

I have attention deficit disorder, so sitting in a classroom is not the best thing for me.

In an effective classroom students should not only know what they are doing, they should also know why and how.

I'm deeply, deeply passionate about creating peace and well-being in the classroom, and well-being as a global nation.

I'm living my dream job! My dream job is to be in the classroom.

I'm not very good in a classroom sort of setting. I never was. I was kind of a clown in high school - got suspended a lot.

I love teaching. I love working with kids... maybe some day I'll go back to the classroom. I'm not ready to say it'll never happen.

In life, the classroom is everywhere. The exam comes at the very end.

In differentiated classrooms, teachers begin where students are, not the front of a curriculum guide.