Class Size Quotes

In public schools, classes are bloated - it's ridiculous.

The people of Florida in 2002 voted and approved class size limits in Florida to make sure that the State pays for smaller class sizes and not local districts.

The class has become over the years fairly large, running to three hundred or more, but I always insist upon reading all the student folklore collections myself. Although this is a tall order, I look forward to it because I learn so much from it.

For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.

I teach at USC. I have a big class of 360 kids, only about a fifth of whom are film majors. I don't just show the Hollywood blockbusters. I show independent films, foreign films, documentaries.

I think our voters have made it clear. Unless someone can demonstrate to me that having larger class sizes is better than having smaller class sizes, I'm not going to support it.

I'm not saying standardized tests are the worst ever, but there's an in-between and I don't think we're there yet. That's what I mean when I say I have an issue with it. There's no way a kid can learn in a class with 40 to 45 people. I had the power to get out of that system and pursue things that I wanted to do and I did that.

There are obvious places in which government can narrow the chasm between haves and have-nots. One is the public schools, which have been seen as the great leveler, the authentic melting pot. That, today, is nonsense. In his scathing study of the nation's public school system entitled "Savage Inequalities," Jonathan Kozol made manifest the truth: that we have a system that discriminates against the poor in everything from class size to curriculum.

Realistically, I think we are not prepared to go home until we do get more teachers and lower class sizes.

Money buys the most experienced teachers, less-crowded classrooms, high-quality teaching materials, and after-school programs.

Teaching was my transition from student life to working life. In those days, our system of education was a little different. The number of students in each class was huge. I think in political science general, which I taught, it was around 100.

My priorities are making sure we reduce class size and close the achievement gap.

Teaching is like trying to hold 35 corks underwater at once.

Our classes were relatively small. Those small classes can feel like family. After a class in French or chemistry or whatever, we'd be talking in the halls about what we just learned.

Many classrooms are overcrowded, and splitting the class into smaller groups gives the children more one on one attention.

Those who start life with the fewest advantages need the smallest classes.

I graduated with a class of 35 people. We had basically just enough people to actually have a play.

I come from a very close class. I lucked out because drama schools are often very competitive... I have fourteen classmates.

We all know—not just from common wisdom but from hard research—that all children benefit from being in smaller classes.

Dartmouth is a small school with high-caliber teaching. Our classes were all taught by professors, not teaching assistants. I felt like that was a school where I could make a big splash. The opportunities would be grander and more robust for me there than at a school with 40,000 students.

But the fact is, no matter how good the teacher, how small the class, how focused on quality education the school may be none of this matters if we ignore the individual needs of our students.

I care about dental care, and ending mass private and public surveillance, and funding schools so they can have small class sizes.

No man can instruct more than half-a-dozen students at once. The whole problem of education is one of its cost in money.

Although the only way that I'm well known at Illinois State is that I am the "grammar Nazi." And so any student whose deployment of a semi-colon is not absolutely Mozart-esque knows that they're going to get a C in my class, and so my classes tend to have like four students in them. It's really a lot of fun.

This is the problem with over-crowded inner-city schools there aren't enough parts for everyone in the nativity story.