To George Gershwin, on refusinghim as a pupil: You would only lose the spontaneous quality of your melody, and end by writing… — Maurice Ravel Copy Share Image
At certain times and in certain schools it is orthodox to be a rebel; and in general it is a very poor… — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. (Le temps est un grand maître, dit-on; le malheur est… — Hector Berlioz Copy Share Image
Children in school are not students, they are pupils. It is typical of certain kinds of politicians that they should regard children… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
If they embark on this course the difference between the old and the new education will be an important one. Where the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
On the terrace of the Pepiniere, the 150 pupils of the Institut Chemique talk chemistry as they leave the auditoria and the… — Victor Grignard Copy Share Image
The bad teacher imposes his ideas and his methods on his pupils, and such originality as they may have is lost in… — Stephen Neill Copy Share Image
My world was completely different to other boys my age. When I was six I was earning money, and by 10 I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A teacher can do very little for a pupil and should only be thankful if he don't hinder him, and the greater… — Thomas Eakins Copy Share Image
When I recall my teachers at school, I realise that half of them were abnormal. . . . We pupils of old… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Wherever there are beginners and experts, old and young, there is some kind of learning going on, some kind of teaching. We… — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
It is impossible to decide whether a particular detail of the Pythagorean universe was the work of the master, or filled in… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
I am now of all humors that have showed themselves humors since the old days of goodman Adam to the pupil age… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The art of remembering is the art of thinking. When we wish to fix a new thing in either our own mind… — William James Copy Share Image
The refractory pupil of Socrates, Aristippus the Cyrene, who believed happiness to be the sum of particular pleasures and golden moments and… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
I want to see far more decisions taken far closer to the patients, the passengers and the pupils. Far more power for… — Charles Kennedy Copy Share Image
I will sit in the pupil of your eyes and that will carry your sight into the heart of the things — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The most recent example and the most, I think, appalling example was when Martin Peretz, the owner - and I stress owner… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The modern State exists not to protect our rights but to do us good or make us good - anyway, to do… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The teacher does best, not when he explains, but when he impels his pupils to seek themselves the explanation. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
The virtue and the strength of UWC is that it provides small, but powerful cells of innovation, catalysts for change, breaking barriers… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection toward his pupils and a genuine desire to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
