Pupils Quotes

236 Pupils quotes by 172 unique authors

To George Gershwin, on refusinghim as a pupil: You would only lose the spontaneous quality of your melody, and end by writing bad Ravel. — Maurice Ravel
The youthful brain should in general not be burdened with things ninety-five percent of which it cannot use and hence forgets again... In many cases,… — Adolf Hitler
From the age of about five to twelve I was very bad, a hideous little terror who beat people up. I was a member of… — Joseph Fiennes
Originally a pupil of Liebig, I became a pupil of Dumas, Gerhardt and Williamson: I no longer belonged to any school. — August Kekule
I'd propose that each central-city child should have an entitlement from the state to attend any school in the metropolitan area outside his own district… — James S. Coleman
My world was completely different to other boys my age. When I was six I was earning money, and by 10 I was paying more… — Aaron Taylor-Johnson
A pupil is a great resource. — Hudson Stuck
The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious… — C.S. Lewis
How much longer are you going to be a pupil? From now on do some teaching as well. — Seneca the Younger
A tutor should not be continually thundering instruction into the ears of his pupil, as if he were pouring it through a funnel, but, after… — Michel de Montaigne
I would rather teach drawing that my pupils may learn to love nature, than teach the looking at nature that they may learn to draw. — John Ruskin
The most desirable mode of education, is that which is careful that all the acquisitions of the pupil shall be preceded and accompanied by desire… — William Godwin
My objective in teaching my pupils is that they should be fitted for any kind of art. — Howard Pyle
I think it likely that some of my pupils will reach unusual distinction. — Howard Pyle
Society cannot contribute anything to the breeding and growing of ingenious men. A creative genius cannot be trained. There are no schools for creativeness. A… — Ludwig von Mises
The bad teacher imposes his ideas and his methods on his pupils, and such originality as they may have is lost in the second-rate art… — Stephen Neill
I believe it would be much better for everyone if children were given their start in education at home. No one understands a child as… — Laura Ingalls Wilder
To have a group of cloistered clinicians away completely from the broad current of professional life would be bad for teacher and worse for student.… — William Osler
You'll change your tune quickly enough when some banshee's sucking your soul out through your pupils. — Ari Marmell
As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in,… — William Godwin
All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves. — Emma Goldman
The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold,… — Anne Sullivan Macy
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. — Horace Mann
I was a good pupil at primary school: in the second class I was writing with no spelling mistakes, and the third and fourth classes… — Jose Saramago

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