Pupil Quotes
125 quotes by 103 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Pupil Quotes
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