Pupil Quotes

125 quotes by 103 authors

The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to… — Alfred Adler
That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends. — Maria Callas
Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild. — Dante Alighieri
We must learn to be honest with ourselves, and know our shortcomings. We will acquire cohesion but we will pay dearly for being a slow… — Zora Neale Hurston
We should seek to be fellow students with the pupil, and should learn of, as well as with him, if we would be most helpful… — Henry David Thoreau
Most teachers waste their time by asking question which are intended to discover what a pupil does not know whereas the true art of questioning… — Albert Einstein
If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples; if it be unfamiliar, make it figure as part of a story; if… — William James
You perceive now, my friends, what your general or abstract duty is as teachers. Although you have to generate in your pupils a large stock… — William James
In Randori we teach the pupil to act on the fundamental principles of Judo, no matter how physically inferior his opponent may seem to him,… — Kano Jigoro
Reason must approach nature with the view, indeed, of receiving information from it, not, however, in the character of a pupil, who listens to all… — Immanuel Kant
Let our pupil be taught that he does not belong to himself, but that he is public property. Let him be taught to love his… — Benjamin Rush
We should never pretend to know what we don't know, we should not feel ashamed to ask and learn from people below, and we should… — Mao Zedong
There is no more wild, free, vigorous growth of the forest, but everything is in pots or rows like a rococo garden... The pupil is… — G. Stanley Hall
Often nothing keeps the pupil on the move but his faith in his teacher, whose mastery is now beginning to dawn on him .... How… — Eugen Herrigel
You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The task of a teacher is not to work for the pupil nor to oblige him to work, but to show him how to work. — Wanda Landowska
There is a gap between the knowledge, skills, or state of mind of the learner and what he is to learn, which it seems to… — Paul Q. Hirst
I am sure that one secret of a successful teacher is that he has formulated quite clearly in his mind what the pupil has got… — Alfred North Whitehead
The understanding which has driven New Labour's reform is to put the individual citizen - the patient, the parent, the pupil, the law abiding citizen… — Tony Blair
You may dazzle the mind with a thousand brilliant discoveries of natural science; you may open new worlds of knowledge which were never dreamed of… — Rose Philippine Duchesne

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