Harry K Wong Quotes

#1. The common Notions of Liberty are not from School Divines, but from Nature.

Algernon Sidney

#2. It is the teacher - what the teacher knows and can do - that is the most significant factor in student achievement.

Harry Wong

#3. The most important day of a person's education is the first day of school, not Graduation Day.

Harry Wong

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

Harry Wong

#5. You can accomplish anything with students if you set high expectations for behavior and performance by which you yourself abide.

Harry K. Wong

#6. Faith is one foot on the ground, one foot in the air, and a queasy feeling in the stomach.

Mother Angelica

#7. The number one problem in the classroom is not discipline; it is the lack of procedures and routines.

Harry Wong

#8. 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 before you enter the classroom door

Harry Wong

#9. Sleep takes her down fast, and very deep, whirls her through places too fragmentary to call dreams, then spits her abruptly back to the surface.

William Gibson

#10. When I graduated from high school I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library 3 days a week for 10 years.

Ray Bradbury

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

Harry Wong

#12. The most successful classes are those where the teacher has a clear idea of what is expected from the students and the students know what the teacher expects from them.

Harry Wong

#13. No need for apologies. ... it's good to question things, but you must have faith too.

Joanne Owen

#14. Your only nobility is being better than who you were yesterday.

Harry Wong

#15. The single greatest effect on student achievement is not race, it is not poverty - it is the effectiveness of the teacher.

Harry Wong