Welcome to Classroom Quotes, a treasure trove of inspiring and thought-provoking quotes that will elevate your classroom experience to new heights. Whether you’re a teacher seeking to motivate your students, a student in need of some academic encouragement, or simply someone who appreciates the power of words, you’ve come to the right place. Our collection spans a wide range of topics, from education and learning to the value of knowledge, creativity, and the joy of teaching. As you explore this page, you’ll find a myriad of quotes that can be a source of inspiration, reflection, and even fun for your classroom activities and projects.
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One of my earliest memories… I knew three full verses of the Star Spangled Banner when I was seven or eight years old. And one of the nuns discovered this phenomenon and I was actually sent around from classroom to classroom to do the whole thing. Dave Van Ronk
Children learn and remember at least as much from the context of the classroom as from the content of the coursework. Lawrence Kutner
Teachers support evaluations based on multiple measures: student growth, classroom observation and feedback from peers and parents. Arne Duncan
The world is a bell curve. Classroom test scores, employee performance in a company or how many people really, really like you. No matter the population you’re studying, they always fit neatly across the standard deviations of the famous bell curve. Simon Sinek
Let’s figure out ways of keeping our children out of the juvenile justice system and in the classroom so that they’ll thrive. Because if you’re in the juvenile justice system, the chances of your going into the adult penal system are greatly increased. Valerie Jarrett
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
Steampunk is not a group of children in a classroom, sitting quietly while the teacher reads a story; it’s the kids at recess, playing a wild, endless game of pretend. Kaja Foglio
I just look back at my time in college and think about how much my community activism and my work in neighborhoods really informed my actual academic career and beyond… It can provide a way better learning than the traditional classroom setting. Opal Tometi
Being a Christian, I’m eager to introduce people to Jesus. I just don’t think I should do it in the science classroom. Kenneth R. Miller
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
The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom. Jon Stewart
Too many vital education dollars that should be spent in the classroom are bouncing around in the federal bureaucracy. Mark Kennedy
What you do on the court, off the court, in the classroom, it’s all the same. Your habits, the way you treat class, your relationships – it’s all the same. Do it right or don’t do it. Allan Houston
I hadn’t learned to read by third grade, which wasn’t unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn’t see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn’t the least bit bothered – until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school. Barbara Corcoran
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
Partisan politics has no place in the classroom. Juan Cole
During recess at school, I’d slip back into the classroom and find something in some other kid’s lunch bag that wouldn’t be missed – a package of crackers, an apple – and I’d gulp it down so quickly I would barely be able to taste it. Jeannette Walls
I was in the classroom four days after the inauguration, because I said to Joe when we got elected, ‘Joe, I really want to continue to teach.’ And he said, ‘Absolutely. You should be doing what you love.’ Politics – that’s Joe’s life, really, his love. But teaching is mine. Jill Biden
Rousseau ranks among the great educational theorists of the modern era, even if he was the last man to put in charge of a classroom. Young adults, he thought, should be allowed to develop their capabilities in their distinctive way. Terry Eagleton
The message of Passover remains as powerful as ever. Freedom is won not on the battlefield but in the classroom and the home. Teach your children the history of freedom if you want them never to lose it. Jonathan Sacks
I think it’s useful to recall that a lot of these statutes like ‘disrupting the classroom’ or ‘disturbing the peace’ have long been historically used to oppress and criminalize black people. Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
Art in the classroom not only spurs creativity, it also inspires learning. Mickey Hart
A Socrates in every classroom. Alfred Whitney Griswold
Pittsburgh was the first chance to be in a classroom with other writers, to have conversations with other writers. In fact, after graduate school, I lived in Japan, Ohio and New Orleans, and only upon leaving Pittsburgh did I see what a special community it was for poets, so I was eager to come back. It’s a strong arts community across the board. Terrance Hayes
Athletes who take to the classroom naturally or are encouraged to focus on grades should be able to do well in the classroom. I believe the reason you go to college is to get your degree. It’s not a minor league or an audition for the pros. Rebecca Lobo
Young people in their twenties spend three-four years doing things that are behind the times. We’re capturing such people in a classroom for a lecture. We need to reground ourselves and see how evolution has taught us. Sonam Wangchuk
I haven’t even graduated from high school yet – and I’ve realised in the last four years, with all the travelling I’ve done and all of the movies I’ve made, that the world is my classroom. I’ve experienced things I don’t know you can necessarily get from reading a history book. Hailee Steinfeld
There has been a great challenge in improving educational achievement. It’s a long-term issue, not a short-term one. It includes everything from getting more parents involved to addressing issues of poverty and improving what happens in the classroom. Julian Castro
I was 17 the first time I set foot in a classroom, but 10 years later, I would graduate from Cambridge with a Ph.D. ‘Educated’ is the story of how I came by my education. It is also the story of how I lost my family. Tara Westover
I was always making my friends laugh, but I never wanted the attention of the whole classroom. Steven Wright
One in four children being victimized? That’s about seven children in every classroom. That’s a significant proportion of the population. Wendy Craig
Grittier students are more likely to earn their diplomas; grittier teachers are more effective in the classroom. Grittier soldiers are more likely to complete their training, and grittier salespeople are more likely to keep their jobs. The more challenging the domain, the more grit seems to matter. Angela Duckworth
I really feel like if they’d have let me just pace in the back of the classroom while the teacher was talking, I’d have done much better. I have to move. But you know, that’s disruptive for the class, and as a result, there was a ripple effect of having to sit still that found its way into every aspect of my life. Ryan Gosling
How absurd that our students tuck their cell phones, BlackBerrys, iPads, and iPods into their backpacks when they enter a classroom and pull out a tattered textbook. Eli Broad
The first classroom is in a mother’s womb. Eric Adams
I really don’t get nervous when I perform -it’s more of an exciting feeling than anything else. But put me in a classroom with kids my age and have me take a test and yeah, I’ll be nervous! Alexa Vega
I’m a great believer in poetry out of the classroom, in public places, on subways, trains, on cocktail napkins. I’d rather have my poems on the subway than around the seminar table at an MFA program. Billy Collins
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
I dropped out of high school three days into my senior year because I hated it because New York City public school is a mess. I certainly wasn’t one for sitting in a classroom. Then I went off to college to North Carolina School of the Arts, then quit that after two years. Erich Bergen
I have such bad memories, sitting in the back of a classroom, being told, you know, everybody is going to read a paragraph, and skipping ahead to my paragraph and being mortified and trying to read it enough times so that I wouldn’t stutter and stammer, getting called on, even in high school. Vince Flynn
Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies. Marshall McLuhan
My interests were more extracurricular, more external, and more social than they were academic. My birthday is also in December, so I was one of the older kids. That meant I learned social leadership early on. I was always just much better in a team and work environment than I was in a classroom environment. Nancy Dubuc
There is no training, classroom or otherwise, that can prepare for trading the last third of a move, whether it’s the end of a bull market or the end of a bear market. Paul Tudor Jones
Visit a typical science classroom and you will discover far more than empirical facts being taught. The dominant worldview among scientific intellectuals is evolutionary naturalism, which holds that humans are essentially biochemical machines. Nancy Pearcey
Physical activity can improve immunity, concentration in the classroom and aerobic fitness. Robbie Savage
My teacher said my brain was the size of a pea. He made my life miserable by singling me out in the classroom as a failure. Willard Wigan
Remember the picture of the president in the classroom, being told of the attack by chief of staff Andy Card? The American people thought they were seeing a man suddenly thrust into a grave challenge no one could have anticipated. Howard Fineman
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
I was 11 when a teacher suggested to my parents that they should send me to drama classes to curb my disruptive ways in the classroom. The next Saturday I was acting, and thereafter it became a ritual of my youth to see a show at the Belvoir on Sundays and, if I was lucky, another at the Opera House on Monday after school. David Wenham
You can’t improve what you can’t measure, and liberals have resisted any kind of meaningful measurement of success in the classroom for decades. Instead of focusing on the three R’s, liberals have thrown up a barrage of silly things designed to distract us all from their awful stewardship of the schools. Mike Gallagher
I’m a comedian first. I’ve learned how to act. I just draw on life experiences and that’s how I’ve learned. I didn’t take classes or anything. I don’t need no classroom. Steve Harvey
And that’s actually the brunt of what we do is, people going straight from their workplace, straight from home, straight into the classroom and working directly with the students. So then we’re able to work with thousands and thousands more students. Dave Eggers
Any child may go through periods during which they become less outspoken with their parents or teachers. But girls, like boys, live in many different worlds – they have their friends and their classroom and their parents – and within these different domains, they may have different levels of expressiveness. Christina Hoff Sommers
Go out and do your drills that you do to try to get better. You lift your weights, try to take things from the classroom to grass, try to get better every day. Julian Edelman
Most people get excited about games, but I’ve got to be excited about practice, because that’s my classroom. Pat Summitt
Official motto of the White House economic team: Those who can, do. Those who can’t, fantasize in the classroom, fail in Washington and then return to the Ivy Tower to train the next generation of egghead economic saboteurs. Life is good for left-wing academics. Everyone else pays dearly. Michelle Malkin
The worst censors are those prohibiting criticism of the theory of evolution in the classroom. Phyllis Schlafly
Making it to the Final Four, you feel like you’re watched on campus. You’re in the classroom, professors are talking about it. Donovan McNabb
It’s the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom. Michael Morpurgo
I want to see how far I can go and how good I can be, whether it’s in the classroom or on the football field. Eric Berry
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
The influence of teachers extends beyond the classroom, well into the future. It is they who shape and enrich the minds of the young, who touch their hearts and souls. It is they who shape a nation’s future. F. Sionil Jose
During my eleven years as a New York City public school teacher, I saw firsthand the impact that poverty has on the classroom. In low-income neighborhoods like Sunset Park, where I taught, students as young as five years old enter school affected by the stresses often created by poverty: domestic violence, drug abuse, gang activity. Sal Albanese
I really didn’t understand why hackers would want to hack into a classroom. Are they going to learn algebra? Maybe calculus? Eric Yuan
I believe with all my heart that the American classroom teachers are one of our greatest and most heroic treasures. Patricia Polacco
The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him. H. Rap Brown
The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom. Thomas Merton
The Wayne Education Building was the first classroom building that we have done on the Wayne campus. Minoru Yamasaki
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
You get on TV and you become more of a star and it makes it real hard to go back to school and sit in a classroom, put your hand up if you have a question or something. Owen Hart
Public education grants secular worldviews an exclusive monopoly in the classroom. Nancy Pearcey
Home schooled children frequently combine for many purposes – and they interact well. The growth of the home schooling movement means that more and more children are learning together, just not in a traditional classroom. Ernest Istook
By bringing current events into the classroom, everyday discussion, and social media, maybe we don’t need to wait for our grandchildren’s questions to remind us we should have paid more attention to current events. Adora Svitak
As they work hard for our children, America’s teachers often reach into their own pockets to make sure they have the best classroom supplies. I feel strongly that the federal government should help make up for their personal financial burden. John Warner
On the first day of school, you got to be real careful where you sit. You walk into the classroom and just plunk your stuff down on any old desk, and the next thing you know the teacher is saying, ‘I hope you all like where you’re sitting, because these are your permanent seats.’ Jeff Kinney
It is commonly agreed that children spend more hours per year watching television than in the classroom, and far less in actual conversation with their parents. Paul Weyrich
That’s the beauty of education, kids taking lessons out of the classroom and back into their own world where they can positively affect their family, their friends, and their greater community. Erin Gruwell
If you go to any elementary school classroom in Texas, some kids in there are going to be named either Austin, Dallas or Houston. Mike Leach
I was terrified of being a teacher. To stand in front of a classroom, the responsibility is boggling. Imagine! Standing in front of people! John Glover
The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes. Jack Hanna
I was diagnosed with dyslexia – I struggled a lot in school and didn’t enjoy it. I’m not great when it comes to sitting in a classroom – I’m much more about doing things. Boxing massively helped with that frustration and anger. Luke Campbell
I loved teaching social studies. And I loved starting each year by teaching about John Locke and the social contract. That lesson helped me teach not just about our rules for the classroom, but how, in our democracy, we give up some individual rights to ensure we collectively have the right to live and prosper in a society. Randi Weingarten
When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As a result, I was not comfortable with formal lectures and receiving regular homework assignments. Philip Emeagwali
Any idea can be brought into the classroom if the point is to inquire into its structure, history, influence and so forth. But no idea belongs in the classroom if the point of introducing it is to recruit your students for the political agenda it may be thought to imply. Stanley Fish
Our highly qualified teachers not only work hard, but they care about each and every student that enters their classroom. I thank you, Montana teachers, for your sense of duty and compassion to our precious future generation. Conrad Burns
Teachers who have committed their lives to the classroom deserve better than our politics has given them. Lawrence O’Donnell
Productivity is going to be a critical issue. And it’s not just about getting more time for professors in the classroom. It involves reexamining the learning experience and restructuring faculty and the use of faculty time. Roy Romer
A student of life considers the world a classroom. Harvey Mackay
Learning is not limited to the classroom, and Minnesota shouldn’t limit its education resources there, either. Ilhan Omar
Increased physical activity during the school day can help children’s attention, classroom behavior, and achievement test scores. Meanwhile, the decline of play is closely linked to ADHD; behavioral problems; and stunted social, cognitive, and creative development. Darell Hammond
Heroes represent the best of ourselves, respecting that we are human beings. A hero can be anyone from Gandhi to your classroom teacher, anyone who can show courage when faced with a problem. A hero is someone who is willing to help others in his or her best capacity. Ricky Martin
My classmates could see I was not similar. So they made me their scapegoat. They hit me or locked me in the toilets. During the break, I would take refuge in the chapel, or I would arrange to stay alone in the classroom. Yves Saint Laurent
My goal in the classroom was always to make sure they were having so much fun that they didn’t realize they were learning. Rick Riordan
The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it. John Ciardi
People go into cartooning because they’re shy and they’re angry. That’s when you’re sitting in the back of a classroom drawing the teacher. Matt Groening
I was rather a poor student, too easily distracted – did a lot of gazing out of windows, fine for training to be a writer, but not a great way to achieve in the classroom. The truth is that I was happy to bumble along and do enough to avoid detention, but not much more. Michael Morpurgo
Common sense tells us that we should focus our resources to benefit children, teachers and taxpayers by keeping dollars in the classroom. Bob Beauprez
Teachers say their schools of education did not adequately prepare them for the classroom. They would have welcomed more mentoring and feedback in their early years. Arne Duncan
I’m very sensitive. I remember, as a kid at school, if someone in the classroom was sad or angry, it could have a great impact on me. Aurora
The problem with public school is not overcrowding in the classroom. The problem is not teacher unions. The problem is not underfunding or lack of computer equipment. The problem is your damn kids. P. J. O’Rourke
