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Service-learning is a particularly fertile way of involving young people in community service, because it ties helping others to what they are learning in the classroom. It enables them to apply academic disciplines to practical, everyday problems. In the process, it provides a compelling answer to the adolescent's perennial question, 'Why do I need to learn this stuff? -- Colin Powell
The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom. -- Thomas Merton
Art in the classroom not only spurs creativity, it also inspires learning. -- Mickey Hart
My goal in the classroom was always to make sure they were having so much fun that they didn't realize they were learning. -- Rick Riordan
There is incredible potential for digital technology in and beyond the classroom, but it is vital to rethink how learning is organised if we are to reap the rewards. -- Geoff Mulgan
Study after study affirms what I saw in the classroom every day as superintendent of Denver Public Schools: Nothing makes a bigger difference for student learning than great teaching. -- Michael Bennet
Home schooled children frequently combine for many purposes - and they interact well. The growth of the home schooling movement means that more and more children are learning together, just not in a traditional classroom. -- Ernest Istook
Productivity is going to be a critical issue. And it's not just about getting more time for professors in the classroom. It involves reexamining the learning experience and restructuring faculty and the use of faculty time. -- Roy Romer
Hoping to instill my love of learning in other children, I taught my first class at a local elementary school the year my first book, 'Flying Fingers,' debuted; since then, I have spoken at hundreds of schools, classrooms and conferences around the world. -- Adora Svitak
Not everything that happens in an in-person classroom is currently replicated with an online course, and perhaps the experience will never be the quite the same. But there are new opportunities that online learning opens up that would have never been possible without this technology. -- Daphne Koller
Our education system is increasingly embracing a black-and-white way of thinking, in which 'learning' and 'play' are diametrically opposed. 'Learning' is the serious stuff that happens inside a classroom and can be measured via multiple choice questions and a No. 2 pencil. 'Play' is frivolous, fun, and worst of all, optional. -- Darell Hammond
What, of course, we want in a university is for people to learn the skills they're going to need outside the classroom. So, having a system that had more emphasis on inquiry and exploration but also on learning and practising specific skills would fit much better with how we know people learn. -- Alison Gopnik
A total immersion in life offers the best classroom for learning to love. -- Leo Buscaglia
Universities won't survive. The future is outside the traditional campus, outside the traditional classroom. Distance learning is coming on fast. -- Peter Drucker
The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes. -- Jack Hanna
Instead of being the 'font of all knowledge,' teachers are required to be effective facilitators of student learning both within and outside the classroom at any time. -- Susan Mann
Unexamined wallpaper is classroom practices and institutional policies that are so entrenched in school culture or a teacher's paradigm that their ability to affect student learning is never probed. -- Richard Elmore

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