Pupils Quotes

236 quotes by 178 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
A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change. So it's a matter of fitting… — Bill Bowerman
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens… — Amos Bronson Alcott
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
I taught principally German language and literature at Eton. But any master with private pupils must be prepared to teach anything they ask for. That… — John le Carre
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
Liebig was not a teacher in the ordinary sense of the word. Scientifically productive himself in an unusual degree, and rich in chemical ideas, he… — Hermann Kolbe
Wherever there are beginners and experts, old and young, there is some kind of learning going on, some kind of teaching. We are all pupils… — Gilbert Highet
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
Almost all education has a political motive: it aims at strengthening some group, national or religious or even social, in the competition with other groups.… — Bertrand Russell
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
If they embark on this course the difference between the old and the new education will be an important one. Where the old initiated, the… — C.S. Lewis
A teacher who establishes rapport with the taught, becomes one with them, learns more from them than he teaches them. He who learns nothing from… — Mahatma Gandhi
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, then, you wish to insure the interest of your pupils, there is only one way to do it; and that is to make certain… — William James
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
The art of remembering is the art of thinking. When we wish to fix a new thing in either our own mind or a pupil's,… — 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
I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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