Pupil Quotes

125 quotes by 102 authors

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic… — Oscar Wilde
All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil. — Abraham Maslow
I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher — Mahatma Gandhi
Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves? — Diogenes
The instructor can scarcely give sensibility where it is essentially wanting, nor talent to the unpercipient block. But he can cultivate and direct the affections… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I will gladly give lessons as a favor, particularly when I see that my student has talent, inclination, and anxiety to learn; but to be… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Teach music and singing at school in such a way that it is not a torture but a joy for the pupil; instill a thirst… — Zoltan Kodaly
Self-respect to be nourished in the mind of the pupil, is one of the most valuable results of a well conducted education. — William Godwin
Salieri was a pupil of Gluck. He was born in Italy in 1750 and died in Vienna in 1825. He left Italy when he was… — Cecilia Bartoli
The man who is an initiate of one of the great Mystery Schools never fears to let his pupils outdistance him, because he knows that… — Dion Fortune
I have become a pupil of the AA movement rather than the teacher. — Bill W.
In short, no association or alliance can be happy or stable without me. People can't long tolerate a ruler, nor can a master his servant,… — Desiderius Erasmus
Admitting that it is the profession of our sex to teach, we perceive the mother to be first in point of precedence, in degree of… — Lydia Sigourney
Far from wishing to awaken the artist in the pupil prematurely, the teacher considers it his first task to make him a skilled artisan with… — Eugen Herrigel
But as Nature is the best guide, teaching must be the development of natural inclinations, for which purpose the teacher must watch his pupil and… — Michel de Montaigne
The pupil wants not so much to learn, as to learn how to learn. — Unknown Author
Assuming that his talent can survive the increasing strain, there is one scarcely avoidable danger that lies ahead of the pupil on his road to… — Eugen Herrigel
We feasted on love; every mode of it, solemn and merry, romantic and realistic, sometimes as dramatic as a thunderstorm, sometimes comfortable and unemphatic as… — C.S. Lewis
This, then, is what counts: a lightning reaction which has no further need of conscious observation. In this respect at least the pupil makes himself… — Eugen Herrigel
The hand that guides the brush has already caught and executed what floated before the mind at the same moment the mind began to form… — Eugen Herrigel

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