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My days are jam-packed with carpools, classroom assistance, tending to chickens, dogs and seven acres of olive trees!
Children learn and remember at least as much from the context of the classroom as from the content of the coursework.
Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies.
Being a Christian, I'm eager to introduce people to Jesus. I just don't think I should do it in the science classroom.
Too many vital education dollars that should be spent in the classroom are bouncing around in the federal bureaucracy.
I'm deeply, deeply passionate about creating peace and well-being in the classroom, and well-being as a global nation.
A leader can't make excuses. There has to be quality in everything you do. Off the court, on the court, in the classroom.
I'm not very good in a classroom sort of setting. I never was. I was kind of a clown in high school - got suspended a lot.
My goal in the classroom was always to make sure they were having so much fun that they didn't realize they were learning.
Nothing could be more absurd than an experiment in which computers are placed in a classroom where nothing else is changed.
Find a group of friends that are going to push you and want you to do better whether it's in the classroom or on the court.
As technology plays a major role inside and outside the classroom, we want to make sure education innovation is accessible.
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.
I really didn't understand why hackers would want to hack into a classroom. Are they going to learn algebra? Maybe calculus?
The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.
Making it to the Final Four, you feel like you're watched on campus. You're in the classroom, professors are talking about it.
If you go to any elementary school classroom in Texas, some kids in there are going to be named either Austin, Dallas or Houston.
The unions say 'last hired - first fired,', we say hire and fire based on merit. We want the best and brightest in the classroom.
I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up.
I didn't think the teachers had the right to tell me what to do. I would just disobey, talk in the classroom, get very bad grades.
I want to encourage students during school hours to express their views, to discuss their views in the classroom or the playground.
Teachers support evaluations based on multiple measures: student growth, classroom observation and feedback from peers and parents.
I love teaching. I love working with kids... maybe some day I'll go back to the classroom. I'm not ready to say it'll never happen.
I always had a weird thing with being the last person somewhere like a movie theater or a classroom. I get a weird sense of anxiety.
I believe that if we want our children to understand the world beyond their classroom, we must bring the world into their classroom.
I realized if you can change a classroom, you can change a community, and if you change enough communities you can change the world.
I'll never be considered one of the all-time greats; maybe not even one of the all-time goods. But I'm one of the all-time survivors.
Education doesn't just take place in stuffy classrooms and university buildings, it can happen everywhere, every day to every person.
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.
In addition to a well-funded school system, we need to encourage and exploit innovative approaches for learning outside the classroom.
I always had a weird thing with being the last person somewhere... like a movie theater or a classroom. I get a weird sense of anxiety.
We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere.
I want to help establish opportunities for at-risk kids to have the same opportunities in and outside of the classroom as everyone else.
It was my notion that teaching had to be thorough, it had to be well done, and it had to connect to something beyond the classroom; life.
One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population.
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.
Common sense tells us that we should focus our resources to benefit children, teachers and taxpayers by keeping dollars in the classroom.
I was terrified of being a teacher. To stand in front of a classroom, the responsibility is boggling. Imagine! Standing in front of people!
I've seen a big shift, especially in my classroom, with women standing up and demanding respect. That's in every woman, whether 16, 26, 56.
I used to be very shy. I hated going to a new classroom and having to make new friends, meet new teachers, and adjust to a new environment.
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.
Reading can be just feeding, but smart reading takes us further. The classroom is one way to go deeper, but we can't stay in school forever.
The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes.
In most every business, you learn by doing. The apprenticeship model is much more effective than the classroom for cultivating entrepreneurs.
My parents never ceased to struggle, but in witnessing their lives, I learned more about natural industry and leadership than in any classroom.
A student who has excelled in the classroom should have the opportunity to attend college and become a productive, taxpaying member of society.
I did my undergrad at Florida State, got a Bachelor's, and then I got my Masters in Acting at NYU. So I've spent a lot of time in the classroom.
Whether it's on the streets of Philadelphia or New York or Chicago or Atlanta or in a classroom in Newtown, Connecticut, people want to be safe.
Universities won't survive. The future is outside the traditional campus, outside the traditional classroom. Distance learning is coming on fast.