I did a school play when I was 10 where I played a cold germ infecting a whole classroom of kids. The play was called ‘Piffle It’s Only a Sniffle.’ I’d never had so much fun. It was a thrill. – Kim Cattrall
You wouldn’t tolerate an underperforming surgeon in an operating theatre, or a underperforming midwife at your child’s birth. Why is it that we tolerate underperforming teachers in the classroom? – Michael Gove
I am basically the sort of person who has stage-fright teaching. I kind of creep into a classroom. I’m not an anecdote-teller, either, although I often wish I were. – Lydia Davis
I find teaching – I like it, but I find just walking into the classroom and facing the students very difficult. – Lydia Davis
It is vital that teachers can be paid more without having to leave the classroom. This will be particularly important to schools in the most disadvantaged areas as it will empower them to attract and recruit the best teachers. – Michael Gove
I have attention deficit disorder, so sitting in a classroom is not the best thing for me. – Jeremy Miller
You get on TV and you become more of a star and it makes it real hard to go back to school and sit in a classroom, put your hand up if you have a question or something. – Owen Hart
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. – Rachel Weisz
High-quality alternative educational settings should be available when students violate codes of conduct and need to be removed from the classroom while still maintaining access to instruction. And there must be social, health and psychological services to address students’ needs. – Randi Weingarten
There is no training, classroom or otherwise, that can prepare for trading the last third of a move, whether it’s the end of a bull market or the end of a bear market. – Paul Tudor Jones
You can say whatever you want; it doesn’t matter. It doesn’t faze me. I’ll still go out and do what I have to do, whether that’s making A’s in the classroom or doing well on the field. – Robert Griffin III
I never read a single book as a child. I did not read as a child. I worked on the farm. I had books in the classroom, but that was it. I never read a single book outside of the classroom. – Story Musgrave
When you are in my classroom, you get everything from me. But you bloody well better give everything too. – Tony Judt
I went to university for a year, and I’m not one for schooling and have no enjoyment sitting in a classroom all day and ended up going to live in England for two years, just to travel. I worked in a bar in a hotel for a couple of years and had no intention of becoming an actor. That’s where I met my agent. – Travis Fimmel
The unions say ‘last hired – first fired,’, we say hire and fire based on merit. We want the best and brightest in the classroom. – Scott Walker
I’m a comedian first. I’ve learned how to act. I just draw on life experiences and that’s how I’ve learned. I didn’t take classes or anything. I don’t need no classroom. – Steve Harvey
Under no circumstances should doodling be eradicated from a classroom or a boardroom or even the war room. On the contrary, doodling should be leveraged in precisely those situations where information density is very high and the need for processing that information is very high. – Sunni Brown
I was always making my friends laugh, but I never wanted the attention of the whole classroom. – Steven Wright
One in four children being victimized? That’s about seven children in every classroom. That’s a significant proportion of the population. – Wendy Craig