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
What is a good definition? For the philosopher or the scientist, it is a definition which applies to all the objects to… — Henri Poincare 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
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
The good teacher discovers the natural gifts of his pupils and liberates them. — Stephen Neal Copy Share Image
I believe it would be much better for everyone if children were given their start in education at home. No one understands… — Laura Ingalls Wilder 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
I have a true aversion to teaching. The perennial business of a professor of mathematics is only to teach the ABC of… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
The way in which modern German poetry follows theories reminds me of pupils who, scolded by their teacher for their insubordination, justify… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking;… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
It's a long shot, it's suicide maybe, but I do the only thing I can think of. I lean in and kiss… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
If, then, you wish to insure the interest of your pupils, there is only one way to do it; and that is… — William James Copy Share Image
I shall no longer be instructed by the Yoga Veda or the Aharva Veda, or the ascetics, or any other doctrine whatsoever.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Twentieth pupil of the centuries knows its stuff and bird-changed this century like Jesus climbs the sky. — Guillaume Apollinaire 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
A game master or teacher who was primarily concerned with being close enough to the "innermost meaning" would be a very bad… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
When a man you know to be of sound mind tells you his recently deceased mother has just tried to climb in… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
But, because my private lectures and domestic pupils are a great hinderance and intteruption of my studies, I wish to live entirely… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
One school invited me down, as two pupils had come out, and the headmaster didn't know what to do about it. I… — Ian Mckellen 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
(I was) my own teacher and pupil, and thanks to the efforts of both, they were not discontented with each other. — Andres Segovia Copy Share Image
You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Pedagogical romances leave the mentor disgruntled, the pupil confused. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The teacher usually learns more than the pupils. Isn't that true? "It would be hard to learn much less than my pupils,"… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
