Pupils Quotes
236 Pupils quotes by 172 unique authors
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Scientific societies are as yet in their infancy. It is to be expected that advances in physiology and psychology will give governments much more control…
— Bertrand Russell
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Communists should set an example in study; at all times they should be pupils of the masses as well as their teachers.
— Mao Zedong
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A Dominican monk, Father Henri Didon, used it as a watchword for his pupils in sports at Arcueil College in Paris. Baron Pierre De Coubertin,…
— John Wooden
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There is, I think, no point in the philosophy of progressive education which is sounder than its emphasis upon the importance of the participation of…
— John Dewey
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I don't like that sort of school... where the bright childish imagination is utterly discouraged... where I have never seen among the pupils, whether boys…
— Charles Dickens
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PERIPATETIC, adj. Walking about. Relating to the philosophy of Aristotle, who, while expounding it, moved from place to place in order to avoid his pupil's…
— Ambrose Bierce
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The greater the teacher, the greater the pupil may become.
— Theodore M. Burton
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The teacher not only shapes the expectations and ambitions of her pupils, but she also influences their attitudes toward their future and themselves. If she…
— Thomas S. Monson
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Look deep into the pupil stare into the black, you'll be able to see the soul what is it doingLaughing? Dancing? Crying? Screaming?
— Shannon Leto
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We saw one school-house in our walk, and listened to the sounds which issued from it; but it appeared like a place where the process,…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Nationally, overwhelmingly non-white schools receive $1,000 less per pupil than overwhelmingly white schools.
— Jonathan Kozol
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He never pays attention, he always knows the answer, and he can never tell you how he knows. We can't keep thrashing him. He is…
— Terry Pratchett
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I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, 'Verify your…
— Winston Churchill
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I was for two years a pupil at the Model School in Fort street which was then conducted upon the Irish national system, and if…
— Edmund Barton
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If we are any good we must always be working towards the moment at which our Pupils are fit to become our Critics & Rivals
— C.S. Lewis
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Listen to a man's words and look at the pupil of his eye. How can a man conceal his character?
— Mencius
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Every spring he vowed to quit teaching school, and every summer he missed his pupils and searched for them on the streets.
— Annie Dillard
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The most important method of education always has consisted of that in which the pupil was urged to actual performance.
— Albert Einstein
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At certain times and in certain schools it is orthodox to be a rebel; and in general it is a very poor class that does…
— Gilbert Highet
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I want to see far more decisions taken far closer to the patients, the passengers and the pupils. Far more power for locally and regionally…
— Charles Kennedy
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A teacher should, above all things, first induce a desire in the pupil for the acquisition he wishes to impart.
— Horace Mann
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Be pupils of the masses as well as their teachers.
— Mao Zedong
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I am a pupil of Pissarro.
— Paul Cezanne
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A great deal of the pupils time was spent going through, once again, the History of the Communist (Bolshevik) Party of the Soviet Union. He…
— George Mikes
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I have a true aversion to teaching. The perennial business of a professor of mathematics is only to teach the ABC of his science; most…
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
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