Class Participation Quotes

There are things I don't like, like sitting at the head of the class. It makes me uncomfortable. I'll do it in a seminar if I have to, but with a workshop, I try to put myself in the circle somewhere. Because that hopefully frees up some people by making somebody else sit at the nominal head of the table.

I was sitting in the classroom trying to look intelligent in case the teacher looked at me.

School reports were always pretty bad - I never ever did my homework. I always turned up for lessons as I liked my teachers but my report said I didn't try very hard.

College gave me validation: I gained a lot of confidence, just from once or twice saying something in class and the professor saying, 'Great idea.' That experience has certainly helped me say to a director, 'Actually, I think my idea is at least worth talking about.'

I get scared when I approach teachers and tell them that I'll probably be able to attend only half the classes, .. I'm scared that they're going to drop me. In the fall of 2002 I signed up for five classes and had to drop three of them.

By the end of the semester [in the high school] I was the only one up in front of the class everyday. Actually I could have passed the class four times over because every time you got in front of the class you got extra credit.That was the only class I got an A in and it was the funniest report card because it read Speech - A but everything else was just D, D, D, D.

We do not postpone the participation of the lower classes of our people in the profits of economic enterprise, and in other countries, they do postpone it. In the long run, I think our policy is better, and we stand by it.

I was nearly as far behind in calculus as I was in physics. But I wasn't the only woman in the class, so I felt more comfortable asking questions.

I was the kid in class who was afraid to get called on.

I'm not quiet, nor am I the class clown. I pick my moments.

If you're a kid, it's all you think about if you stutter. Kids can be so mean. My grades suffered. Class participation weighs heavy in grading, and I wouldn't open my mouth to read or talk in front of anyone.

I am never worried that I'm not gonna get my work done. I was the kid who got straight As and was a little too intense in school. Like, I am a perfectionist, and I am going to sit at the front of the class with my hand raised.

You have to learn to interrupt because you aren't going to get called on.

It's so important to understand your good attendance ups your chances of graduating.

It's kind of hard to rally around a math class.

What I generally tell a class is that if you're not interested in anybody else's work but your own, take another class.

She felt as she often did in class when she was nearly sure she had the right answer, but could not always make herself raise her hand.

If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?

I chose my classes based on which professors did not take attendance, and then I traded Padres tickets for notes from class. I wasn't the student of the month.

Research shows that when children have no body confidence at school they're less likely to put their hand up in class and ask a question.

I was encouraged to read aloud in class and vocalize.

The only thing that happens when I'm teaching is that I hope there are some students out there in the class who will ask questions.

I used to love hand raising.

Very often kids don't ask questions in class because they don't want to be seen asking a question.