I am a pupil of Pissarro.

We should seek to be fellow students with the pupil, and should learn of, as well as with him, if we would be most…

— Henry David Thoreau

I was for two years a pupil at the Model School in Fort street which was then conducted upon the Irish national system, and…

— Edmund Barton

“Our great mistake in education is, as it seems to me, the worship of book-learning–the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory…

— John Lubbock

I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We will expect every pupil by the age of 11 to know their times tables off by heart, to perform long division and complex…

— Nicky Morgan

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

— Leonardo da Vinci

A tutor should not be continually thundering instruction into the ears of his pupil, as if he were pouring it through a funnel, but,…

— Michel de Montaigne

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

A pupil is a great resource.

— Hudson Stuck

“He had never got so much back for himself from any pupil as he did from Miss Kronborg. From the first she had stimulated…

— Willa Cather

Not every pupil has a laptop and not every family has Internet access.

— Gavin Williamson

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

— Seneca the Younger

“No man is fit to educate unless he feels each pupil an end in himself, with his own rights and his own personality, not…

— Bertrand Russell

“It is vain to be the pupil of a sage if you have no brains yourself.”

— Publius Syrus

I am too old to fawn upon a nurse, Too far in years to be a pupil now.

— William Shakespeare