Robertson Davies Quotes About Students

Quotes about: Students

• Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.

  Robertson Davies

  Beauty, Achievement, Today

  Robertson Davies (1952). “Tempest-tost”, Clarke Irwin

• To instruct calls for energy, and to remain almost silent, but watchful and helpful, while students instruct themselves, calls for even greater energy. To see someone fall (which will teach him not to fall again) when a word from you would keep him on his feet but ignorant of an important danger, is one of the tasks of the teacher that calls for special energy, because holding in is more demanding than crying out.

  Robertson Davies

  Teacher, Fall, Feet

  Robertson Davies (1992). “The Cornish Trilogy”, Penguin Group USA

• The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.

  Robertson Davies

  Students, Graduates, Champagne

  Robertson Davies (1983). “High spirits”, Viking Adult

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