"Classroom" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... CHARLES,—I write on Christmas Day from a second-grade Infants' School, the grade referring obviously to the school and not to the infants. We sit round the old Yule hot-water pipe, and from the next classroom come the heavenly strains of the gramophone, one of those veteran but sturdy machines which none of life's rough usages can completely silence or even shake in its loyal determination to go on and keep on going on at all costs. Having duly impressed "Good King Wenceslas" upon us, it ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, December 30, 1914 • Various
... interests of a colt? Why, oats, of course. So, I must return to the barn and get a pail of oats. An empty pail might do once, but never again. So I must have oats in my pail. Either a colt or a boy becomes shy after he has once been deceived. The boy who fails to get oats in the classroom to-day, will shy off from the teacher to-morrow. He will not even accept her statement that there is oats in the pail, for yesterday the ...
— Reveries of a Schoolmaster • Francis B. Pearson
... grew a little harder. Even Freddie and Flossie, young as they were, had little tasks to do that kept them busy. But they liked their school and the teacher, and many were the queer stories they brought home of the happenings in the classroom. ...
— The Bobbsey Twins at School • Laura Lee Hope
... any possibility get there; but now, what was he to do? He felt it was his duty to obey his master, and take his share of the extra work if required; on the other hand, his heart yearned for the fellowship of saints: how dear that little classroom seemed to him then. All the day his mind dwelt upon the subject; he fancied his own accustomed seat empty, and his leader and classmates wondering why he was not there; he prayed earnestly for deliverance from this snare, and yet saw no way of escape. Evening came, and ...
— Little Abe - Or, The Bishop of Berry Brow • F. Jewell
... discussing this tendency, Binet characterizes the child in a class as denature, a French word which we may translate (though rather too literally) as "denatured." Too often this "denatured" child of the classroom is the only ...
— The Measurement of Intelligence • Lewis Madison Terman
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