#classroom

When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#books #classroom #come #desk #heaped

When you start one of these programs, school lunch programs, in a country that heretofore had nothing of that kind, immediately school enrollment jumps dramatically. Girls and boys get to the classroom with the promise of a good meal once a day. ↗

— George McGovern

#country #day #dramatically #enrollment #get

It would be great if politics were fact-based, but it is not, and it is surely not nuance-based. What works in a classroom or a think tank does not work on Capitol Hill or in the White House. Obama sometimes seems to be running the Brookings Institution, not the country. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#capitol hill #classroom #country #does #great

The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#done #learning #least #work

Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents. ↗

— Roger Moore

#classroom #drift #educating #generosity #good

I never read a single book as a child. I did not read as a child. I worked on the farm. I had books in the classroom, but that was it. I never read a single book outside of the classroom. ↗

— Story Musgrave

#books #child #classroom #did #farm

Children are already accustomed to a world that moves faster and is more exciting than anything a teacher in front of a classroom can do. ↗

— Major Owens

#already #anything #children #classroom #exciting

We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere. ↗

— Major Owens

#close #educational #everywhere #gap #happens

We can not wait until we have enough trained people willing to work at a teacher's salary and under conditions imposed upon teachers in order to improve what happens in the classroom. ↗

— Major Owens

#conditions #enough #happens #imposed #improve

I started thinking about my relationship with my students; I'm this guy who comes in from book - and movie - land and descends on angel wings into their classroom. ↗

— Richard Price

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