Pupils Quotes

Zen is not interested in high-flown statements; it wants its pupil to bite his apple and not discuss it.

Over the years I've studied the habits of golfers. I know what to look for. Watch their eyes. Fear shows up when there is an enlargement of the pupils. Big pupils lead to big scores.

How much longer are you going to be a pupil? From now on do some teaching as well.

If we are any good we must always be working towards the moment at which our Pupils are fit to become our Critics & Rivals

To-day is the pupil of yesterday

Tutors should behave reverently before their pupils.

Education must assume full responsibility to enter the moral and spiritual lives of pupils.

Finally, I have someone that's like me. My other two pupils were the opposite sides of the moon. But this guy is on the same side of the moon, is on the same planet that I'm on.

Wit,--the pupil of the soul's clear eye.

I got good grades but no particular comment stands out in my memory, I'm afraid. I was one of those annoying and rather boring model pupils.

The good teacher discovers the natural gifts of his pupils and liberates them.

You teacher, teach your pupils freedom in thought and deed, honesty in thought and deed, and tolerance in thought and deed.

He never pays attention, he always knows the answer, and he can never tell you how he knows. We can't keep thrashing him. He is a bad example to the other pupils. There's no educating a smart boy.

I have always said to my pupils: "Learn as much as you can about symbolism; then forget it when you are analyzing a dream."

If a teacher have any opinion which he wishes to conceal, his pupils will become as fully indoctrinated into that as into any which he publishes.

For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.

When feminists become saints, we will become their pupils.

I was her bestist pupil in the Beckman School for retarted adults and I tryed the hardist becus I reely wantd to lern I wantid it more even then pepul who are smarter even then me.

Don't you realize," Merlin said to his pupil, "that the history of the universe has brought us here to this second?

True undoubting is the teacher's part, continual undoubting the part of the pupil.

She couldn't tell where his pupils ended and the irises began; looking into those eyes was like looking into a well where children had drowned.

Her pupils have taken on a lonely hue, like grey clouds reflected in a calm lake.

Communists should set an example in study; at all times they should be pupils of the masses as well as their teachers.

An academical system without the personal influence of teachers on pupils, is an arctic winter; it will create an icebound, petrified, cast-iron University, and nothing else.

I am showing my pupils details of an immense landscape which they cannot possibly know their way around.

The teacher does best, not when he explains, but when he impels his pupils to seek themselves the explanation.

Perhaps teachers must be good actors where lessons are concerned, but in life outside the class, we mustn't hide from our pupils our individual spirits.

The pupil will eclipse his tutor, I warrant.

For a moment, his pupils flickered blue, like there were tiny bathypelagic fish swimming in the deep trenches of his eyeballs.