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Jai Ganesh

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Classrooms Quotes

Classrooms Quotes

1. When I was six, the Korean War broke out, and all the classrooms were destroyed by war. We studied under the trees or in whatever buildings were left. - Ban Ki-moon

2. I consider the world, this Earth, to be like a school, and our life the classrooms. - Oprah Winfrey

3. Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children. - Walt Disney

4. There are two ways to have educational chess in schools, either through after school programs or using chess as a tool in classrooms to improve children's thinking. - Judit Polgar

5. Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school. - Bill Gates

6. In America the schools have become too permissive, the kids now are controlling the schools, the tail is wagging the dog. We've got to make a change there and get it back to where the teachers have control of the classrooms. - Chuck Norris.

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It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.