Pupils Quotes

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Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.

If you are not prepared to look at your pupils strength's, don't touch their weaknesses.

I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.

Teachers should be very careful not to spoil their pupils' taste for poetry for all time by making it a task and an imposition.

A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils.

Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by the nose.

The pupil wants not so much to learn, as to learn how to learn.

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils.

Making disciples isn’t about gathering pupils to listen to your teaching. The real focus is not on teaching people at all–the focus is on loving them.

Wherever there are beginners and experts, old and young, there is some kind of learning going on, some kind of teaching. We are all pupils and we are all teachers.

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

Little girls, I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all my pupils are the crème de la crème. Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.

He meant that when people laugh together, they cease to be young and old, master and pupils, jailer and prisoners. They become a single group of human beings enjoying its existence.

Once you look past the hype, actors are nothing more than fugitives from reality who specialize in contradiction: we are both children and hardened adults—wide-eyed pupils and jaded working stiffs.

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. Hector Berlioz It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

When God means you to be a healer he sends you patients; when he makes you a teacher he sends you pupils; when he destines you to be a Master he sends you stories.

By studying the masters and not their pupils.

The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic.

The result desired by the state is a wholly different one from that desired by parents, guardians, and pupils.

We're spending, on average, three times more for prison than for public-school pupils. That's the dumbest investment policy. It doesn't make us safer.

I must remain a child and pupil of the Catechism, and am glad so to remain.

If I were a headmaster, I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead and my pupils would study a subject that affected all of them.

No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection toward his pupils and a genuine desire to impart to them what he believes to be of value.

I have become a pupil of the AA movement rather than the teacher.

The bad teacher imposes his ideas and his methods on his pupils, and such originality as they may have is lost in the second-rate art of imitation.

Do you think nobody would willingly entrust his children to you or pay you for teaching them? Why do you have to extort your fees and collect your pupils by compulsion?

Teachers are directed to instruct their pupils... and to awaken in them a sense of their responsibility toward the community of the nation.

You'll change your tune quickly enough when some banshee's sucking your soul out through your pupils.

I think it likely that some of my pupils will reach unusual distinction.

Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting.

Many a bad habit is developed through overindulgence, and many a good one by chastisement; therefore, beat your son as well as your pupil; never indulge them.

It is because they have no Oyarsa,' said one of the pupils. It is because everyone of them wants to be a little Oyarsa himself,' said Augray.

I would rather teach drawing that my pupils may learn to love nature, than teach the looking at nature that they may learn to draw.

Be pupils of the masses as well as their teachers.

It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious to draw the right lessons from her teaching.

Pupils may learn many things when a teacher is not in fact teaching.

I clench his hands to the point of pain. "Stay with me." His pupils contract to pinpoints, dialate again rapidly, and then return to something resembling normalcy. "Always," he murmurs.

Association with my pupils has kept me young in my work. Criticism of their work has kept my own point of view clear.

From the age of about five to twelve I was very bad, a hideous little terror who beat people up. I was a member of a Rough Gang - we went around and terrorised all the pupils in school.

The good pupils are often brilliant, and they keep you on your toes and take you to the limits of your knowledge. The worst pupils provide a unique insight into the criminal mind.

A pupil is a great resource.

My objective in teaching my pupils is that they should be fitted for any kind of art.

Our task as we grow older in a rapidly advancing science, is to retain the capacity of joy in discoveries which correct older ideas, and to learn from our pupils as we teach them.

Every spring he vowed to quit teaching school, and every summer he missed his pupils and searched for them on the streets.

Wit is the refractory pupil of judgment.

The most important method of education always has consisted of that in which the pupil was urged to actual performance.

What the teachers digest, the pupils eat.

Nationally, overwhelmingly non-white schools receive $1,000 less per pupil than overwhelmingly white schools.

I am a pupil of Pissarro.