Pupils Quotes

236 Pupils quotes by 172 unique authors

If the government announced that it was going to allocate a vast tranche of education funding purely to the pupils at the best public schools,… — Will Self
I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher. — Gertrude Stein
Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting. — P.G. Wodehouse
The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God. — Victor Hugo
I shall no longer be instructed by the Yoga Veda or the Aharva Veda, or the ascetics, or any other doctrine whatsoever. I shall learn… — Hermann Hesse
The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I will sit in the pupil of your eyes and that will carry your sight into the heart of the things — Rabindranath Tagore
It is because they have no Oyarsa,' said one of the pupils. It is because everyone of them wants to be a little Oyarsa himself,'… — C.S. Lewis
A game master or teacher who was primarily concerned with being close enough to the "innermost meaning" would be a very bad teacher. To be… — Hermann Hesse
And that's when Anna realized that what the wolf had been asking Bran for was death. Impulsively, Anna stepped away from Charles. She put a… — Patricia Briggs
The child had indeed shut up but all the questions that had accumulated on his tongue circulated in his mouth, moved through the passages of… — Elif Safak
His vision, from the constantly passing bars, has grown so weary that it cannot hold anything else. It seems to him there are a thousand… — Rainer Maria Rilke
The word "education" comes from the root e from ex, out, and duco, I lead. It means a leading out. To me education is a… — Muriel Spark
She couldn't tell where his pupils ended and the irises began; looking into those eyes was like looking into a well where children had drowned. — MaryJanice Davidson
I must try to remember that a boy's heart is not a man's, and perhaps a teacher must learn from his pupil, too, eh? — David Clement-Davies
I would have things as they were in all the days of my life . . . and in the days of my longfathers before… — J.R.R. Tolkien
TEACHER seeks pupil. Must have an earnest desire to save the world. Apply in person. — Daniel Quinn
A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence. — Bruce Lee
For every one pupil who needs to be guarded against a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the… — C.S. Lewis
I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn. — Albert Einstein
I was her bestist pupil in the Beckman School for retarted adults and I tryed the hardist becus I reely wantd to lern I wantid… — Daniel Keyes
I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become. — Jean-Paul Sartre
One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Once you look past the hype, actors are nothing more than fugitives from reality who specialize in contradiction: we are both children and hardened adults—wide-eyed… — Bruce Campbell
The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to… — H. L. Mencken

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