Harry Wong famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The single greatest effect on student achievement is not race, it is not poverty - it is the effectiveness of the teacher.
-- Harry Wong

#Teacher #Race #Effectiveness
One of the greatest gifts a caring teacher can contribute to children is to help them learn to sit when they feel like running, to raise their hand when they feel like talking, to be polite to their neighbor, to stand in line without pushing, and to do their homework when they feel like playing. By introducing procedures in the classroom, you are also introducing procedures as a way of living a happy and successful life.
-- Harry Wong

#Running #Teacher #Children
In an effective classroom students should not only know what they are doing, they should also know why and how.
-- Harry Wong

#Educational #Students #Classroom
It is the teacher - what the teacher knows and can do - that is the most significant factor in student achievement.
-- Harry Wong

#Teacher #Learning #Achievement
The number one problem in the classroom is not discipline; it is the lack of procedures and routines.
-- Harry Wong

#Numbers #Discipline #Problem
Half of what you will accomplish in a day will be determined before you leave home. Three quarters of what you achieve will be determined before you enter the classroom door
-- Harry Wong

#Educational #Home #Doors
A well-managed classroom is a task-oriented and predictable environment.
-- Harry Wong

#Tasks #Classroom #Environment
The most important day of a person's education is the first day of school, not Graduation Day.
-- Harry Wong

#School #Important #Firsts
The most successful classes are those where the teacher has a clear idea of what is expected from the students and the students know what the teacher expects from them.
-- Harry Wong

#Respect #Teacher #Successful

It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?
Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.
Each individual creature on this beautiful planet is created by God to fulfil a particular role. Whatever I have achieved in life is through His help and an expression of His will. He showered His grace on me through some outstanding teachers and colleagues and when I pay my tributes to these fine persons, I am merely praising His glory. We are all born with a divine fire in us.
Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.
I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races: that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people.
...Let us discard all this quibbling about this man and the other man-this race and that race and the other race being inferior, and therefore they must be placed in and inferior position...Let us discard all these things, and unite as one people throughout this land, until we shall once more stand up declaring that all men are created equal.
As labor is the common burden of our race, so the effort of some to shift their share of the burden onto the shoulders of others is the great durable curse of the race.
The first discipline modernity's originators imposed upon themselves was that of self-restraint, learning to live with vulgarity. Their high expectations for effectiveness were made possible by low expectations of what was to be.
In the end, the effectiveness of our creative process comes down to whether weâ€™re going to whine or do the work.

Harry Wong famous quotes

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