Children learn and remember at least as much from the context of the classroom as from the content of the coursework.
Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.
My mother, who is a Carnatic musician, started a school for children when I was around three, and I grew up listening to her teaching students.
I don't believe a mistake-free learning environment exists.
The work of education is divided between the teacher and the environment.
School is a good place - it ain't for everybody, but I think it's for most people.
A classroom . People trying to stick me in classrooms was becoming as predictable and annoying as people trying to kill me, but with less-fun results.
My first few films were institutional comedies, and you're on pretty safe ground when you're dealing with an institution that vast numbers of people have experienced: college, summer camp, the military, the country club.
I want my kids to be in an environment where they can talk about values in a way that you can't always do in a public school setting.
School is a place were you go to eat your lunch
I thought I might teach philosophy but the atmosphere of a college faculty repelled me; the few islands of greatness seemed to be washed by seas of pettiness and mediocrity.
Traditionally, the love of reading has been born and nurtured in high school English class
I am not your dear; I cannot lie down: send me to school soon, Mrs. Reed, for I hate to live here.
Violence comes in many forms and can be particularly disturbing when confronted in an educational setting if handled dismissively or in ways that blame victims.
Many classrooms are overcrowded, and splitting the class into smaller groups gives the children more one on one attention.
I'm very struck by what you can do in a classroom. I've got 200 students. You don't do partisan politics in a classroom, that's not appropriate. But you want to give them a strong sense that these are the issues that matter.
We would like to have every middle and high school become a place where there will be lots of examples of youth competence and confidence.
My school is attended by near three hundred scholars.
I found it really difficult when teachers talked down to me.
Community college is like a disco with books: "Here's ten dollars; let me get my learn on!"
Particular individuals who might never consider dropping out if they were in a different high school might decide to drop out if they attended a school where many boys and girls did so.
I think it'd be useful for parents to know kind of what is the culture of an institution.
I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another.
The perfect classroom is Paris.
If I'm made to pick one transcendent reading experience, then it was listening to Miss Sarzin as - if we'd been very, very good - she read the next chapter of 'The Hobbit' aloud to us.
