Pupils Quotes

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  Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.

  John Dewey

  Education, Teaching, Thinking

  John Dewey (1980). “The Middle Works, 1899-1924”, p.161, SIU Press

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• You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Teacher, Retirement, Teaching

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• Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

  Arthur Koestler

  Inspiring, Teacher, Educational

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• I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Education, Appreciation

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• If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught.

  Oscar Hammerstein II

  Music, Teacher, Taught

  "Song: 'Getting to Know You'". "The King and I". Musical by Oscar Hammerstein II, 1956.

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• The greater the teacher, the greater the pupil may become.

  Theodore M. Burton

  Teacher, Teaching, May

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• A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

  Horace Mann

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Education

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.225

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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

  Education, Important, Method

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.27, Open Road Media

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• Association with my pupils has kept me young in my work. Criticism of their work has kept my own point of view clear.

  William Merritt Chase

  Views, Criticism, Association

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• 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 - with per pupil funds going with him.

  James S. Coleman

  Children, School, Should Have

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• A pupil is a great resource.

  Hudson Stuck

  Resources

  Hudson Stuck (2007). “Ascent of Denali”, p.32, Cosimo, Inc.

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• 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, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.

  William Godwin

  Reading, Thinking, Should

  William Godwin (1823). “The Enquirer”, p.130

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• 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 a Rough Gang - we went around and terrorised all the pupils in school.

  Joseph Fiennes

  School, People, Age

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Far from wishing to awaken the artist in the pupil prematurely, the teacher considers it his first task to make him a skilled artisan with sovereign control of his craft.

  Eugen Herrigel

  Teacher, Artist, Wish

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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 elected politicians who understand best the needs of their areas. And far more say too for the dedicated staff at all levels in health and education.

  Charles Kennedy

  Taken, Decision, Needs

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• Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

  Diogenes

  Education, Teacher, School

  Herakleitos, Diogenes (2011). “Herakleitos and Diogenes: Translated from the Greek by Guy Davenport”, p.55, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.

  Dante Alighieri

  Art, Grandchildren, Able

  "Divine Comedy". Poem by Dante Alighieri. Inferno, Song XI, 103, 1321.

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• Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by the nose.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  College, Doctors, Years

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1984). “Faust”

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• The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made. The aim is to make 'good' citizens, which is to say, docile and uninquisitive citizens.

  H. L. Mencken

  Educational, Simple, Ideas

  H. L. Mencken (2000). “H.L. Mencken's Smart Set Criticism”, p.222, Regnery Publishing

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• Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1957). “Notebooks”

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• To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.

  Muriel Spark

  Teacher, Soul, Great Education

  'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie' (1961) ch. 2

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• 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

  Life, Mean, Reality

  P. G. Wodehouse (2012). “The Man Upstairs: And Other Stories”, p.11, The Floating Press

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• 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,' said Augray.

  C. S. Lewis

  Want, Littles, Said

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Out of the Silent Planet”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• 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, all things are changed!

  Anne Sullivan Macy

  Education, Morning, Teaching

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• A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils.

  Bill Bowerman

  Teacher, Smart, Teaching

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