The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do. — John Stuart Mill
A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. — Bill Bowerman
The power to learn is present in everyone's soul, and the instrument with which each learns is like an eye that cannot be turned around from darkness to light without turning the whole body. — Plato
The secret in education lies in respecting the student. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence. — Bruce Lee
There is a brilliant child locked inside every student. — Marva Collins
When the student is ready the teacher will appear. — Lao Tzu
A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discovers are among them, as comets amongst the stars. — Carl Linnaeus
What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp? — William Osler
A child is a person in whom all possibilities are present - present now at this very moment - not to be educed after many years and efforts manifold on the part of the educator — Charlotte Mason
Your eyes are even smaller,
yet they behold the world. — Rumi
I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn. — Albert Einstein
Parents teach in the toughest school in the world - The School for Making People. You are the board of education, the principal, the classroom teacher, and the janitor. — Virginia Satir
the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person. — Andy Rooney
Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system. — Sidney Hook
Short Pupil Quotes
All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil. — Abraham Maslow
If you are not prepared to look at your pupils strength's, don't touch their weaknesses. — Reuven Feuerstein
Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life. — Muriel Spark
One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. — Hector Berlioz
To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. — Muriel Spark
Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves? — Diogenes
TEACHER seeks pupil. Must have an earnest desire to save the world. Apply in person. — Daniel Quinn
Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master. — Leonardo da Vinci
Pupil Image Quotes
Teacher Pupil Quotes
That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends. My teacher was Ferruccio Cusinati — Maria Callas
As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every evil which may befall me; therefore, I have always found myself capable of being my own pupil, and ready to love my teacher. — Giacomo Casanova
Teachers should be very careful not to spoil their pupils' taste for poetry for all time by making it a task and an imposition. — Ernest Shackleton
To have a group of cloistered clinicians away completely from the broad current of professional life would be bad for teacher and worse for student. The primary work of a professor of medicine in a medical school is in the wards, teaching his pupils how to deal with patients and their diseases. — William Osler
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. — Horace Mann
So far has Athens left the rest of mankind behind in thought and expression that her pupils have become the teachers of the world, and she has made the name of Hellas distinctive no longer of race but of intellect, and the title of Hellene a badge of education rather than of common descent. — Isocrates
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron. — Horace Mann
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples. — Amos Bronson Alcott
Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. — Arthur Koestler
Far from wishing to awaken the artist in the pupil prematurely, the teacher considers it his first task to make him a skilled artisan with sovereign control of his craft. — Eugen Herrigel
Eye Pupil Quotes
The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it will contract. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
One has to seek Beauty and Truth, Sir! As I always say to my pupils, you have to work to the finish. There's only one kind of painting. It is the painting that presents the eye with perfection, the kind of beautiful and impeccable enamel you find in Veronese and Titian. — William-Adolphe Bouguereau
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. — Bruce Campbell
The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A young man had become possessed by a devil. The thing within him burst into loud lamentation and departed from the man. At once the youth's eye fell out on his cheek, and the whole of the pupil which had been black became white. — Saint Augustine
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. — Sam Snead
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I'd rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way: The eye's a better pupil and more willing than the ear, fine counsel is confusing, but example's always clear. — Edgar A. Guest
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple. — Amos Bronson Alcott
While my father sang, Pedroza stared at me. By that time my eye pupils were staring at him, too, like a terrier that's got hold of a fox. — Barry McGuigan
Master And Pupil Quotes
Education should aim at destroying free will so that after pupils are thus schooled they will be incapable throughout the rest of their lives of thinking or acting otherwise than as their school masters would have wished — Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by the nose. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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. — Gilbert Highet
You yourself are the teacher, and the pupil, you're the master, you're the guru, you are the leader, you are everything! And, to understand is to transform what is. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
The enthusiast always finds the master, the masters, whom he seeks. Always genius seeks genius, desires nothing so much as to be a pupil and to find those who can lend it aid to perfect itself. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing can be done about it: every master has but a single pupil--and he will not stay loyal to him--for he is also destined to become a master. — Friedrich Nietzsche
A teacher can do very little for a pupil and should only be thankful if he don't hinder him, and the greater the master, mostly the less he can say. — Thomas Eakins
It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. — Niels Henrik Abel
I would have things as they were in all the days of my life, and in the days of my longfathers before me: to be the Lord of this City in peace, and leave my chair to a son after me, who would be his own master and no wizard's pupil. — J. R. R. Tolkien
Good Pupil Quotes
The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made. The aim is to make 'good' citizens, which is to say, docile and uninquisitive citizens. — H. L. Mencken
Don't preach too much to your pupils or abound in good talk in the abstract. Lie in wait rather for the practical opportunities, be prompt to seize those as they pass, and thus at one operation get your pupils both to think, to feel, and to do. — William James
The coach's job is twenty percent technical and training, and eighty per cent inspirational. He may know all there is to know about tactics, technique and training, but if he cannot win the confidence and comradeship of his pupils he will never be a good coach — Franz Stampfl
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. — Bertrand Russell
A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions. — Martin H. Fischer
The good teacher discovers the natural gifts of his pupils and liberates them by the stimulating influence of the inspiration that he can impart. The true leader makes his followers twice the men they were before. — Stephen Neill
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. — Chanakya
Teaching can be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless someone buys ... yet there are teachers who think they have done a good day's teaching irrespective of what the pupils have learned. — John Dewey
As Michael (Chekhov)'s pupil, I learned more about acting. I learned psychology, history, and the good manners of art - taste. — Marilyn Monroe
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. — Stephen Curry
Student Pupil Quotes
Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well. — Alfred North Whitehead
So long as public schools are treated as places that exist to provide guaranteed jobs to members of the teachers' unions, do not be surprised to see American students continuing to score lower on international tests than students in countries that spend a lot less per pupil than we do. — Thomas Sowell
A teacher who establishes rapport with the taught, becomes one with them, learns more from them than he teaches them. He who learns nothing from his disciples is, in my opinion, worthless. Whenever I talk with someone I learn from him. I take from him more than I give him. — Mahatma Gandhi
True undoubting is the teacher's part, continual undoubting the part of the pupil. — Franz Kafka
Children in school are not students, they are pupils. It is typical of certain kinds of politicians that they should regard children as adults, the better subsequently, and consequently, to regard adults as children. — Anthony Daniels
Originally a pupil of Liebig, I became a pupil of Dumas, Gerhardt and Williamson: I no longer belonged to any school. — August Kekule
We should seek to be fellow students with the pupil, and should learn of, as well as with him, if we would be most helpful to him. — Henry David Thoreau
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. — John Dewey
I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become. — Jean-Paul Sartre
One is born to be a dancer. No teacher can work miracles, nor will years of training make a good dancer of an untalented pupil. One may be able to acquire a certain technical facility, but no one can ever 'acquire an exceptional talent.' I have never prided myself on having an unusually gifted pupil. A Pavlova is no one's pupil but God's. — George Balanchine
Teach music and singing at school in such a way that it is not a torture but a joy for the pupil; instill a thirst for finer music in him, a thirst which will last for a lifetime. — Zoltan Kodaly
My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed! — Anne Sullivan Macy
I was for two years a pupil at the Model School in Fort street which was then conducted upon the Irish national system, and if any special religious instruction was given in connection with that system, I do not recollect it. — Edmund Barton
In Randori we teach the pupil to act on the fundamental principles of Judo, no matter how physically inferior his opponent may seem to him, and even if by sheer strength he can easily overcome him; because if he acts contrary to principle his opponent will never be convinced of defeat, no matter what brute strength he may have used. — Kano Jigoro
The first thing necessary in teaching is a master; the second is a pupil capable of carrying on the tradition. — Egyptian Proverbs
There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is you, and you are he; then is a teaching; and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever lose the benefit. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our Lord has many weak children in his family, many dull pupils in his school, many raw soldiers in his army, many lame sheep in his flock. Yet he bears with them all, and casts none away. Happy is that Christian who has learned to do likewise with his brethren. — J. C. Ryle
The pupil's imagination is 'schooled' to accept service in place of value. Medical treatment is mistaken for health care, social work for the improvement of community life, police protection for safety, military poise for national security, the rat race for productive work. — Ivan Illich
Dreams are things that could potentially be treating you as a pupil to teach you things so when you wake up, you'll be able to handle certain elements from those dreams in a better way. — Tom DeLonge
The aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought....The little human animal will not at first have the right responses. It must be trained to feel pleasure, liking, disgust, and hatred at those things which really are pleasant, likable, disgusting, and hateful. — Aristotle
The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God. — Victor Hugo
The hand that guides the brush has already caught and executed what floated before the mind at the same moment the mind began to form it, and in the end the pupil no longer knows which of the two-mind or hand -was responsible for the work. — Eugen Herrigel
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