Quotes About Classrooms

#1. Truly, I've learned more theology living in poor neighborhoods than in classrooms. At times I wonder if the questions of traditional theology have any meaning for the poor. And "the poor" here mean eighty percent of the population! (Ivone Gebara, p. 209)

Mev Puleo

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

Ronald Reagan

#3. When we introduce new technologies into our classrooms we are teaching our students twice.

Michael Joseph Brown

#4. I agree with the idea that there is a separation of church and state. That teachers should not be leading prayer - a particular kind of prayer in classrooms.

Ken Buck

#5. Many classrooms are overcrowded, and splitting the class into smaller groups gives the children more one on one attention.

Tamra Davis

#6. Success is created in studio apartments and garages, at kitchen tables, and in classrooms across the nation, not in government conference rooms in Washington.

Tim Scott

#7. In business school classrooms they construct wonderful models of a non- world.

Peter Drucker

#8. The use of online assessment tools is giving teachers a more fine-grained understanding of individual students' skills, and assisting them to determine the necessary next steps to enable them to achieve their own learning goals. We are seeing more effective differentiation in classrooms as a result.

Susan Mann

#9. A classroom . People trying to stick me in classrooms was becoming as predictable and annoying as people trying to kill me, but with less-fun results.

James Patterson

#10. I can't speak for Aeschylus or Epictetus or Aristotle. But I am convinced of this: they would have hated having their wisdom confined to classrooms and textbooks. This is wisdom about how to live. And it's your property as much as anyone's. It is yours. Take it. Use it.

Eric Greitens

#11. We tend to forget that there's nothing sacrosanct about learning in large group classrooms, and that we organize students this way not because it's the best way to learn but because it's cost-efficient,

Susan Cain

#12. In 1996, Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night' was removed from classrooms after a school board passed a 'prohibition of alternative lifestyle instruction' act. Apparently, a young female character disguised as a boy was a danger to the youth of Merrimack, New Hampshire.

Richard LaGravenese

#13. Though we have been stuffing them into classrooms and cubicles for decades, our brains actually were built to survive in jungles and grasslands. A lifetime of exercise can result in a sometimes astonishing elevation in cognitive performance, compared with those who are sedentary.

John Medina

#14. When all is said and done we simply must make teaching in this country an honorable profession-since it's in the classrooms of America where the battle for excellence, ultimately, will be won or lost.

Ernest L. Boyer

#15. Maintaining order in the classrooms has never been easy and it is evident that the school setting requires some easing of the restrictions to which searches by public authorities are ordinarily subject.

Byron White

#16. The best memories on tour are always of kids who tell me they are going to run back to their classrooms and start writing!

Doreen Cronin

#17. It is one thing to open the schools to all children regardless of race. It is another to train the teachers, to build the classrooms, and to attempt to eliminate the effects of past educational deficiencies. It is still another to find ways to feed the incentive to learn and keep children in school.

Robert Kennedy

#18. Conservatives felt victimized by a sort of radicalism that, because it graced Middle American classrooms, did not seem radical to most Americans at all.

Rick Perlstein

#19. As a country [USA], we can attract more talented people to teaching by raising awareness of educational inequity and getting the public to understand from individual classrooms, schools, and cities that this is an issue that can be solved.

Wendy Kopp

#20. 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 the students.

Patrick Stewart

#21. It wasn't the Supreme Court that expelled God from our public school classrooms. It was the textbook publishers.

James J. Kilpatrick

#22. 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, dreaming of the next big thing, and hoping that the Internet is as open to them as it was to the founders of Google.

Edward Felten

#23. Part of Washington keeping its promises is a focus on directing more dollars into our local classrooms.

Mark Kennedy

#24. I haven't met one parent or one teacher in Missouri who thinks we should balance the budget by taking money from kids' classrooms.

Jay Nixon

#25. 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 a change there and get it back to where the teachers have control of the classrooms.

Chuck Norris

#26. 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 be made in the neighborhoods, the living rooms, the playing fields, and the classrooms of our country.

Jimmy Carter

#27. The sequence of doors we passed made me think of all the rooms of my past and future. The hospital ward I was born in, classrooms, tents, churches, offices, hotels, museums, nursing homes, the room I'll die in. (Has it been built yet?)

David Mitchell

#28. I consider this world to be like a school and our lives to be the classrooms.

Oprah Winfrey

#29. Teachers craft classrooms that are good matches for their teaching styles as well as for learner needs.

Carol Ann Tomlinson

#30. The urban barbarism that has turned our streets into battlegrounds and our classrooms into killing fields will not be stopped by an assault on the Second Amendment right of American gunowners to keep and bear arms.

Pat Buchanan

#31. [T]he seeds of [the Argument Culture] can be found our classrooms, where a teacher will introduce an article or an idea ... setting up debates where people learn not to listen to each other because they're so busy trying to win the debate.

Deborah Tannen

#32. If you could draw a picture of the best high school in the world - where all the teachers are wonderful and all the classrooms are beautiful, it would be my high school.

Kym Whitley

#33. 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 classrooms.

Mitch Daniels

#34. The status quo was rote memorization and recitation in classrooms thronged with passive children who were sternly disciplined when they expressed individual needs.

David Guterson

#35. Education doesn't just take place in stuffy classrooms and university buildings, it can happen everywhere, every day to every person.

Richard Branson

#36. 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 our children into classrooms.

Kailash Satyarthi

#37. Credentials and classrooms are useless unless they lead us toward consciously applying knowledge to improve the quality of our community.

Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti

#38. In the depth of the near depression, that he faced when he came in, Barack Obama and Democratic leaders in Congress provided 'recovery funds' that literally kept our classrooms open. Two years ago, these funds saved nearly 20,000 teacher and education jobs - just here in North Carolina.

Jim Hunt

#39. Someday, in the distant future, our grand-children' s grand-children will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in front of boxes with fires glowing within. May they have the wisdom to know the difference between light and knowledge.

Plato

#40. On the last Saturday of every month, Rwanda goes to work for itself: clearing land, building classrooms, making roads. On these national days of community work, known as umuganda, most shops and businesses are closed. Umuganda is a national priority, and everyone is expected to participate.

Patricia Crisafulli

#41. There is no question we need higher academic standards and at the local level the rigor of the Common Core state standards must be the new minimum in classrooms.

Jeb Bush

#42. I'd spent seven years in an all-boys school: 2,000 adolescents in the same khaki uniforms striking hunting poses, stalking lunchrooms, classrooms, changing rooms, looking for boys who didn't fit in.

Marlon James

#43. When I was six, the Korean War broke out, and all the classrooms were destroyed by war. We studied under the trees or in whatever buildings were left.

Ban Ki-moon

#44. Without optimism & self-belief among teachers, classrooms become wastelands of boredom & routine and schools deserts of lost opportunity.

Andy Hargreaves

#45. 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 be great until every young mind is set free to scan the farthest reaches of thought and imagination. We are still far from that goal.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#46. In a time of tight budgets, difficult choices have to be made. We must make sure our very limited resources are spent on priorities. I believe we should have no higher priority than investing in our children's classrooms and in their future.

Bob Riley

#47. Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.

Walt Disney Company

#48. In second grade, I told a bunch of kids there was a homeless person living between the portable classrooms outside our school. It caused panic, and the principal had to announce on the P.A. system that no one was living there. I pretended I didn't know who started the rumor.

Alessia Cara

#49. Classrooms and educations need to be places of infectious passion

Adam Bellow

#50. I've worked throughout California as a poet: in colleges, universities, worker camps, migrant education offices, continuation high schools, juvenile halls, prisons, and gifted classrooms.

Juan Felipe Herrera

#51. Education ultimately depends on what happens in classrooms ... between teachers and learners. That is fundamental.' ... 'I hope that teachers will discover the optimism and direction to combat the energy - draining pressures and frustrations of most educational settings.

David Perkins

#52. Google has made teaching more challenging because learners believe that Google is their answer. But the learners are only forced to classrooms because questions are with teachers. Will Bing become learners' teacher by providing questions?

Santosh Avvannavar

#53. As a founder of two organizations that recruit top college graduates to expand educational opportunity, I've spent a lot of time examining what's at work in successful classrooms and schools over the past two decades.

Wendy Kopp

#54. In the best classrooms, grades are only one of many types of feedback provided to students.

Douglas B. Reeves

#55. Flipping our classrooms into active learning spaces really is important and having these convenient spaces where people feel comfortable.

Megan Smith

#56. Imagine how different those classrooms could be if hundreds of Nigeria's most talented recent graduates and professionals channeled their energy not only into the country's banks, but into making education in the country a force for transformation.

Wendy Kopp

#57. Rarely do outside of school remedies work their way into the fabric of the schools or into the teachers lives, and more rarely into the classrooms. Therefore they only offer a modest hope of influencing the basic culture of the school

Roland Barthes

#58. Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s.

Clifford Stoll

#59. The style of flirtation specific to classrooms was of service to the students all their lives.

Renata Adler

#60. The first few weeks of school were always surreal, like you landed on an alien planet with strange teachers and unfamiliar classrooms, even though the lockers and cafeteria seemed familiar.

S.M. Stevens

#61. VIRTUALITY ACTUALITY
Classrooms in schools will give way to classes in rooms at home
Kamil Ali

Kamil Ali

#62. 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

#63. Physically, teachers are often alone in their own classrooms with no other adults for company. Psychologically, they never are.

Andy Hargreaves

#64. I realized with grief that purposeless activities in language arts are probably the burial grounds of language development and that coffins can be found in most classrooms, including mine.

Mem Fox

#65. 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 not want to see cattle grazing on fields meant to be cricket or football grounds.

Sachin Tendulkar

#66. Classrooms keep getting set up more and more around the verbal and less around the kinesthetic and active. They are increasingly becoming environments that favour the girls' brain.

Michael Gurian

#67. All I know is that right now I wanna rip your clothes off right here in the middle of this hall and throw you in one of these classrooms and kiss every square inch of your body, while a bunch of people who drive minivans listen wishing they were us.

L.J.Smith

#68. High school guys only appear hot to high school girls. its something to do with the fluorescent lighting in the classrooms, i think. They're actually really skinny and spotty, and they have giant feet

Rainbow Rowell

#69. The best learning happens in real life with real problems and real people and not in classrooms.

Charles Handy

#70. Afew classrooms in our school have bathrooms right in them, but I can't even use those, because every little sound you make is broadcast to the whole room

Anonymous

#71. In classrooms and living rooms across the globe, an agnostic or an atheist may be heard to strenuously argue, 'But the Bible is just a book.' Similar arguments may be raised against other holy books. But they all are too ironic, by half. A book is the Bible.

Gerald Weaver

#72. The junior high I attended also required students to change classrooms for each subject, which was unlike Australia

Nick Vujicic

#73. The least of learning is done in the classrooms.

Thomas Merton

#74. Whenever we've seen the kids in the most disadvantaged context truly excel, always it's been in classrooms and in whole schools where there is a clear vision of where the kids have the potential to be.

Wendy Kopp

#75. The history of our nation is intertwined with a certain religious tradition, and that the First Amendment was not intended to result in the complete exclusion of religious beliefs from our public classrooms.

William Bennett

#76. Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.

Bill Gates

#77. The future of our country is not found in our boardrooms, but in our classrooms.

Michael Milken

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

Carol Ann Tomlinson

#79. 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. Young children are on the streets instead of in the classrooms. We are not giving them the opportunity to learn and they will struggle to get jobs when they grow up.

George Weah

#80. Economics must not be relegated to classrooms and statistical offices and must not be left to esoteric circles. It is the philosophy of human life and action and concerns everybody and everything. It is the pith of civilization and of man's human existence.

Ludwig Von Mises

#81. The most reliable way to be certain of their classroom impact is through independent studies conducted by third-party organisations which compare the student growth in our corps members' classrooms to that of other teachers in similar situations.

Wendy Kopp

#82. The most important emotion in classrooms is surprise.

Andy Hargreaves

#83. I object to religion in science classrooms not because it's religion but because it's not science.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#84. Let us become the first generation to decide to be the last that sees empty classrooms, lost childhoods and wasted potential

Malala Yousafzai

#85. And then there's the perverse joy of subtly working in references to marathon training in daily life, say at the post office or while waiting outside my first-graders' classrooms at the end of the school day.

Sarah Bowen Shea

#86. A gifted teacher has an unfailing eye for magical classrooms & loses sleep over anything less than the highest quality.

Carol Ann Tomlinson

#87. In outstanding classrooms, teachers do more listening than talking, and students do more talking than listening. Terrific teachers often have teeth marks on their tongues.

Alfie Kohn

#88. In their recently aborted struggle to inject Genesis literalism into science classrooms, fundamentalist groups followed their usual opportunistic strategy of arguing two contradictory sides of a question when a supposed rhetorical advantage could be extracted from each ...

Stephen Jay Gould

#89. Coding is the language of the future, and every girl should learn it. As I've learned from watching girls grow and learn in our classrooms, coding is fun, collaborative and creative.

Reshma Saujani

#90. I consider the world, this Earth, to be like a school, and our life the classrooms.

Oprah Winfrey

#91. This kind of totalization of security consciousness [after tragedy of 9/11] has the effect within classrooms (and beyond) of constraining the imagination and reinforcing attitudes that privilege the forces of law and order as against the crosscurrents of freedom and dissent.

Richard A. Falk

#92. Butler's novel 'Kindred' may be the book most widely read by readers outside science fiction; it has been assigned as a text in classrooms and has sold steadily since its publication in 1979.

Karen Joy Fowler

#93. Now things have changed for the better. Our reforms end seniority and tenure so we can hire and fire based on merit and pay based on performance. That means we can put the best and the brightest in our classrooms - and we can keep them there.

Scott Walker

#94. 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

#95. Join me in reaching out to young journalists in our classrooms ... or in your own newsrooms. They need our help along this journey. They need our help. The future of our industry needs you, your wisdom and your guidance, to help them live up to their potential.

Willow Bay

#96. You can do all the film school you want in classrooms, but if you are on the set, you are going to learn so much more because you are really in the middle of doing it.

Melanie Mayron

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

Paul Weyrich

#98. It's Thursday afternoon, and we have sports. These are the choices for the girls: watching an invitational cricket game; studying in one of the classrooms; or watching the senior rugby league. As you can imagine, I'm torn.

Melina Marchetta

#99. To build a more healthy, peaceful and equitable world the classrooms of the world have to be full of girls as well as boys

Kofi Annan

#100. Student diversity in classrooms increases the need for diversity in teaching approaches.

Kay M. Price