Pupils Quotes

236 Pupils quotes by 172 unique authors

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
Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the… — Bertrand Russell
On the terrace of the Pepiniere, the 150 pupils of the Institut Chemique talk chemistry as they leave the auditoria and the laboratory. The echoes… — Victor Grignard
Their pupils and their little charges are not nourished and fed by what they learn: the learning is passed from hand to hand with only… — Michel de Montaigne
Socrates and then Archesilaus used to make their pupils speak first; they spoke afterwards. 'Obest plerumque iss discere volunt authoritas eorum qui docent.' [For those… — Michel de Montaigne
As for our pupils talk, let his virtue and his sense of right and wrong shine through it and have no guide but reason. Make… — Michel de Montaigne
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
The same is true of Love, and the instinctive desire to please those whom we love. The teacher who succeeds in getting herself loved by… — William James
Pupils may learn many things when a teacher is not in fact teaching. — Paul Q. Hirst
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
It is the mission of the pedagogue, not to make his pupils think, but to make them think right, and the more nearly his own… — H. L. Mencken
Select such subjects that your pupils cannot walk out without seeing them. Train your pupils to be observers, and have them provided with the specimens… — Louis Agassiz
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
Too rarely is the individual teacher so free from the dictation of authoritative supervisor, textbook on methods, prescribed course of study, etc., that he can… — John Dewey
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
Little girls, I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all my pupils are the crème de la crème. Give… — Maggie Smith
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
The evil that has resulted from the error of the schools, in teaching natural philosophy as an accomplishment only, has been that of generating in… — Thomas Paine
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

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