Perhaps I fear him because I could love him again, and in loving him, I would come to need him, and in… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
If I were a headmaster, I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead and my pupils… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
We should, if possible, prove a teacher to posterity, instead of being the pupil of by-gone generations. More shall come after us… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Teach music and singing at school in such a way that it is not a torture but a joy for the pupil;… — Zoltan Kodaly Copy Share Image
A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change. So it's a… — Bill Bowerman Copy Share Image
The good pupils are often brilliant, and they keep you on your toes and take you to the limits of your knowledge.… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Too many pupils at schools in the U.K. want to have careers as footballers or TV hosts, or models, because that's what… — Sugata Mitra Copy Share Image
As to the 'St. Michael,' the subject is very fine, but very difficult, so I doubt that I shall find easily amongst… — Peter Paul Rubens Copy Share Image
I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I was never capable of being an average pupil. I would either seem refractory to any teaching and give the impression of… — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
Often nothing keeps the pupil on the move but his faith in his teacher, whose mastery is now beginning to dawn on… — Eugen Herrigel Copy Share Image
The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The mind of your own enemy, the pupil, is working away from you, as keenly and eagerly as is the mind of… — William James Copy Share Image
It is the mission of the pedagogue, not to make his pupils think, but to make them think right, and the more… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The reason for teaching history is not that it changes society, but that it changes pupils; it changes what they see in… — Peter Lee Copy Share Image
As for our pupils talk, let his virtue and his sense of right and wrong shine through it and have no guide… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I am sure that one secret of a successful teacher is that he has formulated quite clearly in his mind what the… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I was my own teacher and pupil, in a comradeship so firm and persevering that the most trying incidents of my life… — Andres Segovia Copy Share Image
So long as public schools are treated as places that exist to provide guaranteed jobs to members of the teachers' unions, do… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Even though I'm surrounded by pupils, there is the invisible screen screen between us, and behind the glass wall I am screaming… — Tabitha Suzuma Copy Share Image
Nothing can be done about it: every master has but a single pupil--and he will not stay loyal to him--for he is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
An impression which simply flows in at the pupil's eyes or ears and in no way modifies his active life, is an… — William James Copy Share Image
Thus having been undeservedly accepted at the Conservatory as a professor, I soon became one of its best and possibly its very… — Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Copy Share Image
Our task as we grow older in a rapidly advancing science, is to retain the capacity of joy in discoveries which correct… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
I can remember visiting one school in Nottingham - where there were about 10 pupils on the brink of exclusion. They had… — Jermaine Jenas Copy Share Image
From a young age, pupils are put under immense amounts of pressure in high-stakes exams. Often, they're made to feel like their… — Layla Moran Copy Share Image
I've managed to bring the backlog down to a mere sixty-eight years," she announced with some small sense of achievement. "I hope… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
It would be a great advantage to some schoolmasters if they would steal two hours a day from their pupils and give… — John Frederick Boyes Copy Share Image
To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The teacher's prime concern should be to ingrain into the pupil that assortment of habits that shall be most useful to him… — William James Copy Share Image
Ingenuity in meeting and pursuing the pupil, that tact for the concrete situation, though they are the alpha and omega of the… — William James Copy Share Image
He never pays attention, he always knows the answer, and he can never tell you how he knows. We can't keep thrashing… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The enthusiast always finds the master, the masters, whom he seeks. Always genius seeks genius, desires nothing so much as to be… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If the government announced that it was going to allocate a vast tranche of education funding purely to the pupils at the… — Will Self Copy Share Image
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… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
This, then, is what counts: a lightning reaction which has no further need of conscious observation. In this respect at least the… — Eugen Herrigel Copy Share Image
Don't say I was an inspirational teacher - my former pupils would laugh their heads off. I was grossly incompetent, but I… — Greg Davies Copy Share Image
Many a bad habit is developed through overindulgence, and many a good one by chastisement; therefore, beat your son as well as… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Far from wishing to awaken the artist in the pupil prematurely, the teacher considers it his first task to make him a… — Eugen Herrigel Copy Share Image
I am a tarsier and a tarsier's son, the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers, a tiny creature, made up of two pupils… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
