My objective in teaching my pupils is that they should be…

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

— Gilbert Highet

“Is not the great defect of our education today—a defect traceable through all the disquieting symptoms of trouble that I have mentioned—that although we…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

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

— Howard Pyle

But as Nature is the best guide, teaching must be the development of natural inclinations, for which purpose the teacher must watch his pupil…

— Michel de Montaigne

It would be a great advantage to some schoolmasters if they would steal two hours a day from their pupils and give their own…

— John Frederick Boyes

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

— Seneca the Younger

The same is true of Love, and the instinctive desire to please those whom we love. The teacher who succeeds in getting herself loved…

— William James

A teacher who can show good, or indeed astounding results while he is teaching, is still not on that account a good teacher, for…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

The pupil is ... 'schooled' to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to…

— Ivan Illich

If the question were, "What ought to be the next objective in science?" my answer would be the teaching of science to the young,…

— Elihu Thomson

It's objective evaluations that give our hardwiring principles teeth and drive the organization toward results that last.

— Quint Studer

Any piece of knowledge which the pupil has himself acquired- any problem which he has himself solved, becomes, by virtue of the conquest, much…

— Herbert Spencer

The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity…

— Anonymous

“Since Pawlow and his pupils have succeeded in causing the secretion of saliva in the dog by means of optic and acoustic signals, it…

— Jacques Loeb

A good aim surveys the present state of experience of pupils, and forming a tentative plan of treatment, keeps the plan constantly in view…

— John Dewey