Harry Wong Quotes

#1. The gap between enthusiasm and indifference is filled with failures. The great man is he that does not lose his child's heart.

Mencius

#2. Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.

Ezra Pound

#3. The mind is an invisible net that can catch any event with its power of perception.

Debasish Mridha

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

Harry Wong

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

Harry Wong

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

Harry Wong

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

Harry K. Wong

#8. I wrote my earliest piece for The Sunday Times about being a young wife.

Jilly Cooper

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

Harry Wong

#10. Remember all those references to Macedonia as the oasis of peace in the Balkans. You only really appreciate it when you have lost it.

Boris Trajkovski

#11. 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

#12. There's a marvelous peace in not publishing, there's a stillness. When you publish, the world thinks you owe something. If you don't publish, they don't know what you're doing. You can keep it for yourself.

J.D. Salinger

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

Harry Wong

#14. 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

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

Harry Wong

#16. More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.

Woody Allen

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

Harry Wong

#18. There is a film called 'A Separation.' If you see it playing, go see it. It's beautiful. It's so well written and the acting is amazing. It's one of those films that you would love to be a part of.

Demian Bichir