Pupils Quotes - Page 10

• The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should have the opportunity of teaching itself. What does it matter if the pupil know a little more or a little less? A boy who leaves school knowing much, but hating his lessons, will soon have forgotten all he ever learned; while another who had acquired a thirst for knowledge, even if he had learned little, would soon teach himself more than the first ever knew.

  John Lubbock

  Education, Children, Hate

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• In teaching, you must simply work your pupil into such a state of interest in what you are going to teach him that every other object of attention is banished from his mind; then reveal it to him so impressively that he will remember the occasion to his dying day; and finally fill him with devouring curiosity to know what the next steps in connection with the subject are.

  William James

  Art, Teaching, Psychology

  William James (1912). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”

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• Ingenuity in meeting and pursuing the pupil, that tact for the concrete situation, though they are the alpha and omega of the teacher's art, are things to which psychology cannot help us in the least.

  William James

  Teacher, Art, Teaching

  William James (1983). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.16, Harvard University Press

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• Of course there is matter for remark in poems. Nobody denies that. But it must be solemnly laid on everybody in this world to make his own observations and remarks. That's what we mean by thinking, and that's about all we mean. A teacher says to a pupil "Watch me notice a few things in the next few months: let's see you notice a few things too."

  Robert Frost

  Teacher, Teaching, Mean

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• Nothing can be done about it: every master has but a single pupil--and he will not stay loyal to him--for he is also destined to become a master.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Teacher, Done, Loyal

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• Pedagogical romances leave the mentor disgruntled, the pupil confused.

  Mason Cooley

  Confused, Romance, Mentor

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• The good pupils are often brilliant, and they keep you on your toes and take you to the limits of your knowledge. The worst pupils provide a unique insight into the criminal mind.

  John le Carre

  Unique, Mind, Criminals

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• Tutors should behave reverently before their pupils.

  Roger L'Estrange

  Teaching, Should, Tutor

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• If a teacher have any opinion which he wishes to conceal, his pupils will become as fully indoctrinated into that as into any which he publishes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Teacher, Wish

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1317, Delphi Classics

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• The enthusiast always finds the master, the masters, whom he seeks. Always genius seeks genius, desires nothing so much as to be a pupil and to find those who can lend it aid to perfect itself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Perfect, Desire, Genius

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• We should, if possible, prove a teacher to posterity, instead of being the pupil of by-gone generations. More shall come after us than have gone before; the world is not yet middle-aged.

  Herman Melville

  Teacher, Generations, Gone

  Herman Melville (1850). “White-jacket: or, The world in a man-of-war”, p.151

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• A young man had become possessed by a devil. The thing within him burst into loud lamentation and departed from the man. At once the youth's eye fell out on his cheek, and the whole of the pupil which had been black became white.

  Saint Augustine

  Religious, Eye, Men

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• I am too old to fawn upon a nurse,
  Too far in years to be a pupil now.

  William Shakespeare

  Education, Learning, Years

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson (1765). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Eight Volumes”, p.19

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• The very first step toward success in any occupation is to become interested in it. Locke put this in a very happy way when he said, give a pupil "a relish of knowledge" and you put life into his work.

  William Osler

  Knowledge, Giving, Way

  Sir William Osler, Classics of Medicine Library (1985). “The philosophical essays”

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• I was my own teacher and pupil, in a comradeship so firm and persevering that the most trying incidents of my life served only to strengthen the union.

  Andres Segovia

  Teacher, Trying, Unions

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• The modern State exists not to protect our rights but to do us good or make us good - anyway, to do something to us or to make us something. Hence the new name 'leaders' for those who were once 'rulers'. We are less their subjects than their wards, pupils, or domestic animals. There is nothing left of which we can say to them, 'Mind your own business.' Our whole lives are their business.

  C. S. Lewis

  Animal, Rights, Names

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• We're spending, on average, three times more for prison than for public-school pupils. That's the dumbest investment policy. It doesn't make us safer.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  School, Average, Three

  "The Lenny Interview: Marian Wright Edelman". Interview with Jurnee Smollett-bell, www.lennyletter.com. April 8, 2016.

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• Dreams are things that could potentially be treating you as a pupil to teach you things so when you wake up, you'll be able to handle certain elements from those dreams in a better way.

  Tom DeLonge

  Dream, Wake Up, Elements

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• An impression which simply flows in at the pupil's eyes or ears and in no way modifies his active life, is an impression gone to waste. It is physiologically incomplete... Its motor consequences are what clinch it.

  William James

  Eye, Waste, Flow

  William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.17, Cosimo, Inc.

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• An academical system without the personal influence of teachers on pupils, is an arctic winter; it will create an icebound, petrified, cast-iron University, and nothing else.

  John Henry Newman

  Teacher, Winter, Iron

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• Learning is a process of mutual discovery for teacher and pupil. Keep an open mind to their unexpected responses.

  Bel Kaufman

  Teacher, Discovery, Mind

  Bel Kaufman (2012). “Up the Down Staircase”, p.256, Open Road Media

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• Teaching can be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless someone buys ... yet there are teachers who think they have done a good day's teaching irrespective of what the pupils have learned.

  John Dewey

  Teacher, Teaching, Good Day

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• If nature be regarded as the teacher and we poor human beings as her pupils, the human race presents a very curious picture. We all sit together at a lecture and possess the necessary principles for understanding it, yet we always pay more attention to the chatter of our fellow students than to the lecturer's discourse. Or, if our neighbor copies something down, we sneak it from him, stealing what he himself may have heard imperfectly, and add it to our own errors of spelling and opinion.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Teacher, Errors, Race

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• The teacher usually learns more than the pupils. Isn't that true? "It would be hard to learn much less than my pupils," came a low growl from somewhere on the table, "without undergoing a pre-frontal lobotomy."

  Douglas Adams

  Teacher, Would Be, Tables

  "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency". Book by Douglas Adams, 1987.

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• The Judo pupil, therefore, must cultivate his mind; he must never feel fear, never lose his temper, never be off his guard; but he must be cool and calm, though not absent-minded; he must act as quick as thought, according to circumstances. He must also be dexterous as well as bold both in attack and in defense.

  Yokoyama Sakujiro

  Mind, Defense, Calm

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