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Quotes About Classroom

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
The unions say 'last hired - first fired,', we say hire and fire based on merit. We want the best and brightest in the classroom.
~ Scott Walker
Public school teachers from every corner of America post classroom project requests on DonorsChoose.org. Requests range from pencils for a poetry writing unit to violins for a school recital to microscope slides for a biology class.
~ Charles Best
I discovered how science is truly a universal language, one that forges new connections among individuals and opens the mind to ideas that go far beyond the classroom.
~ Ahmed Zewail
I went to university for a year, and I'm not one for schooling and have no enjoyment sitting in a classroom all day and ended up going to live in England for two years, just to travel. I worked in a bar in a hotel for a couple of years and had no intention of becoming an actor. That's where I met my agent.
~ Travis Fimmel
If you have a class of 35 children, and they're all smiling, and there's one little bastard, and he's just staring at you as if to say 'Show me', then he's the one you think about going home on the train.
~ Frank McCourt
My career actually started in the second grade as class clown. That's no joke. I was always making people laugh, and it was really to mask a learning disability... When it came time for me to read out loud, I would crack jokes or create a diversion.
~ Ian Ziering
I've been a schoolteacher. I always try to get the kids to finish talking before the next one starts.
~ Marion Zimmer Bradley
When new technology in the classroom starts happening, some people get very excited and think of it as a panacea. It attracts very high amounts of money; it raises expectations, and those expectations aren't met.
~ Mitch Kapor
I think the Americans need to understand that a lot of times the children are bored in school, and that is why they are not staying in.
~ Melinda Gates
I don't recall my parents ever steering me toward or away from science. It was more that I was steered toward learning and excellence in the classroom.
~ Sandra Faber
When I first went to LA. Honestly, it was different for me. The whole thing, the student-athlete part, you know, where the student came before the athlete. That was totally new to me. I had down online school since fifth grade so I never really had sat in a classroom and taken a note.
~ Jennifer Brady
Pero su poder sobre mí no procedía de algo exterior, de ser un "centro de poder" ajeno, sino de mi propio deseo de gustar, de ser querido y acariciado. Por eso me resultaba tan interesante el poder que la maestra tenía sobre una clase de 25 personas
~ Orhan Pamuk
Bu kadar kalabal?k bir ortamda öÄŸrenciye dersleri anlatarak deÄŸil ezberleterek öÄŸretmek haliyle daha etkili bir yöntemdir.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Parents often complain that America's education establishment abuses the classroom and misuses their children by preaching new moral orthodoxies on a whole range of issues like gender identity. The courts and legal profession then enforce those new orthodoxies. But it's the social sciences that actually help create them.
~ Charles J. Chaput
Mr. Michaelson went on teaching the class then, as if history was the most important thing in the world, and even though she didn't want to, Lucy actually heard some of what he said.
~ Chet Williamson
He went to the board to write lots of Greek symbols and calculus equations. The course had started with cute little things like how people choose between tea and biscuits. It had moved on to scary equations that would dominate exams. The class took mad notes. Kanyashree wrote so hard I could feel the seismic vibrations from her pen's nib.
~ Chetan Bhagat
Students want a safe, predictable, and nurturing environment—one that is consistent. Students like well-managed classes because no one yells at them, and learning takes place. Effective teachers spend the first two weeks teaching students to be in control of their own actions in a consistent classroom environment.
~ Harry K. Wong
getting the students to comprehend and achieve. There is no one right way to do this. Just like classroom management, there is no one right procedure for getting the students to do what you want them to do. There are many options, but they are based on core information.
~ Harry K. Wong
The effective teachers spent time organizing and structuring their classrooms so the students knew what to do to succeed.
~ Harry K. Wong
Seventy-seven percent of teachers admit that their teaching would be more effective if they did not have to spend so much time dealing with disruptive students (Public Agenda, 2004).
~ Lee Canter
Forty percent of teachers spend more time keeping order than teaching (Johnson, 2004).
~ Lee Canter
SCENE: Classroom, Lower East Side, 1926. Teacher: "Who can tell us where the Romanian border is?" Student: "In the park with my aunt, and my mother doesn't trust him!
~ Leo Rosten
This is my favorite part of the day. "Good morning, Class Two C," I say. The entire class leaps up and sings out, "Good morning, miss!" Twenty-three faces are smiling at me. Sometimes they shout it with so much conviction that I laugh.
~ Jamie Zeppa