Letitia Baldrige Quotes

School is a good place - it ain't for everybody, but I think it's for most people.

The classroom - not the trench - is the frontier of freedom now and forevermore.

I am happy in Paris.

Paris is an ideal place to become informed, while Venice is a place to think and write.

I enjoyed the whole process of learning and was always happy when autumn came and school or college started up again.

When I teach and meet a class for the first time, you realize that there are people there that have exceptional abilities or have the potential to do exceptional things and you never know who those people are. My job is to provide the best information I can.

In a way, education by its nature favours the extrovert because you are taking kids and putting them into a big classroom, which is automatically going to be a high-stimulation environment. Probably the best way of teaching in general is one on one, but that's not something everyone can afford.

A child knows when they are on the receiving end of a didactic exercise, or when they are sitting in the shadow of something else.

The best teacher is an entertainer.

As the daughter of a schoolteacher, I feel very strongly that the most important thing in school takes place right there in that classroom, and the interaction between the teacher and the child.

I want to work with kids. I would love to be a teacher.

An education program is, by definition, a societal program. Work should be done at school, rather than at home.

My school is attended by near three hundred scholars.

I don't believe a mistake-free learning environment exists.

At the end of primary school, I went to secondary school. I paid $12 a term to go to school.

Flipping our classrooms into active learning spaces really is important and having these convenient spaces where people feel comfortable.

All children are born with stars in their eyes, and they are curious. It is important for teachers to be careful not to kill this curiosity. A lot can go wrong. Children can be teased, even by teachers.

While it was a very interesting period in my life, I was happy to get back to more direct contact with students in the classroom and in my research projects.

Paris is life-enhancing for all those reasons we know and all those words that have become so banal.

Schools can do extraordinary things given the chance; teachers can do remarkable things if we eliminate the paperwork that sometimes binds them and give them a chance to really teach in our schools.

I know people talk about poverty and other factors, but there is very little I can do to ensure that a child has a stable two-parent home. But what if we can give them a shot in the classroom with a stable, high-standards environment?

I don't miss public school.

DonorsChoose was conceived at a Bronx public high school where I taught social studies for five years. In the teachers' lunch room, my colleagues and I often lamented a problem that drained learning from students and creativity from teachers: a lack of funding for essential materials and for the activities that bring subject matter to life.

I was inspired to shoot 'Look Back at It' in a high school because I'm like a voice of the youth. When the youth sees me in a classroom, I want them to be inspired to accomplish their dreams. I was just like them in a classroom at one point. It all starts in a classroom.

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.