Quotes by Rafe Esquith

Rafe Esquith

Baseball is a religion in my classroom. It’s a very important part of life, baseball.

Baseball

Classroom

Important

But to paraphrase Henry Drummond in Inherit the Wind, ignorance and mediocrity are forever busy, and the forces of mediocrity aren’t content with being mediocre; they’ll do everything in their power to prevent even the humblest of teachers and children from accomplishing anything extraordinary. For good work shines a light on the failures of the mediocre, and that is a light which terrifies those who conspire to keep our nation’s children, like themselves, ordinary.

Children

Ignorance

Teacher

Good teachers are an endangered species because they’re giving up because of the tests and everything.

Giving Up

Teacher

Tests

I always tell the kids that excellence is like pregnancy. You can’t be a little bit pregnant. You either are or you’re not.

Excellence

Kids

Pregnancy

I am asking teachers to understand that we must make the education relevant for the children. If they’re only working for the tests or they’re only working to please us, they’re not going to be interested in school.

Children

School

Teacher

I don’t think we expect enough of students. They just need someone to show them the way.

Leadership

Needs

Thinking

I have students who are PhDs in music who come back and scored the music and teach the kids the instruments that I don’t know how to play. Those are the points of light, the former students.

Kids

Light

Play

I love Shakespeare. In Shakespeare, tragedy is not just something that’s bad. It’s something that could be good and is bad.

Be Good

Tragedy

I travel a lot with my students. We go on the road and even learn about things like doing your laundry and managing your time. And maybe that’s not on the test at the end of the year, but it’s in the test of life and that’s why my classroom is successful.

Goes On

Successful

Years

I try to show the children how every lesson I teach them is going to be something they use in their real life. That’s why my kids work so hard, not because I’m so cool. They’re working for themselves.

Children

Kids

Real

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Art

Baseball

Be Good

Children

Classroom

Country

Dad

Differences

Drs

Excellence

Exercise

Eye

Fall

Fire

Foundation

Giving Up

Goes On

Hair

Hard Work

Ignorance

Important

Jewels

Jobs

Journey

Justice

Kids

Kings

Laughing

Leadership

Light

Like You

Mom

Motivation

Needs

Nice

People

Perfection

Perseverance

Play

Pregnancy

Reading

Real

School

Sorry

Successful

Summer

Teacher

Teaching

Tests

Thinking

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Quotes by Rafe Esquith

Rafe Esquith

Baseball is a religion in my classroom. It’s a very important part of life, baseball.

Good teachers are an endangered species because they’re giving up because of the tests and everything.

I always tell the kids that excellence is like pregnancy. You can’t be a little bit pregnant. You either are or you’re not.

I am asking teachers to understand that we must make the education relevant for the children. If they’re only working for the tests or they’re only working to please us, they’re not going to be interested in school.

I don’t think we expect enough of students. They just need someone to show them the way.

I have students who are PhDs in music who come back and scored the music and teach the kids the instruments that I don’t know how to play. Those are the points of light, the former students.

I love Shakespeare. In Shakespeare, tragedy is not just something that’s bad. It’s something that could be good and is bad.

I travel a lot with my students. We go on the road and even learn about things like doing your laundry and managing your time. And maybe that’s not on the test at the end of the year, but it’s in the test of life and that’s why my classroom is successful.

I try to show the children how every lesson I teach them is going to be something they use in their real life. That’s why my kids work so hard, not because I’m so cool. They’re working for themselves.

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