Pupils Quotes - Page 2

• 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 tax than the parents of other pupils. I feel a lot older than my years. Because I was working with adults, I had to mature a lot quicker.

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson

  Boys, Years, Parent

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• One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Teacher, Existentialism, Remains

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.120, Penguin

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• A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change. So it's a matter of fitting your current practices to fit the event and the individual. See, what's good for you might not be worth a darn for the next guy.

  Bill Bowerman

  Running, Teacher, Smart

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• The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.

  Alfred Adler

  Inspirational, Motivational, Education

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• The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  "Orphic Sayings: LXXX. Teacher". "The Dial", www.alcott.net. January 1841.

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• 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

  Teaching, Drawing, May

  John Ruskin (2012). “The Elements of Drawing”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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• The aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought....The little human animal will not at first have the right responses. It must be trained to feel pleasure, liking, disgust, and hatred at those things which really are pleasant, likable, disgusting, and hateful.

  Aristotle

  Animal, Hatred, Aim Of Education

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• A true teacher should penetrate to whatever is vital in his pupil, and develop that by the light and heat of his own intelligence.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Education, Teacher, Light

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1875). “Success and Its Conditions”, p.109

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• If you are not prepared to look at your pupils strength's, don't touch their weaknesses.

  Reuven Feuerstein

  Strength, Psychology, Weakness

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• Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

  Hector Berlioz

  Life, Music, Death

  "About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution". Book by Paul Davies, 1996.

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• I taught principally German language and literature at Eton. But any master with private pupils must be prepared to teach anything they ask for. That can be as diverse as the early paintings of Salvador Dali or how bumblebees manage to fly.

  John le Carre

  German Language, Bumblebees, Literature

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• Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.

  Muriel Spark

  Girl, Giving, Age

  FaceBook post by Muriel Spark from Feb 01, 2017

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• It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious to draw the right lessons from her teaching.

  Douglas Hurd

  Country, Teaching, Lessons

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• That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.

  Maria Callas

  Education, Teacher, Mean

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• I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.

  Gertrude Stein

  Teacher, Literature, Ifs

  Gertrude Stein (2016). “Three Lives”, p.251, Simon and Schuster

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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 any special religious instruction was given in connection with that system, I do not recollect it.

  Edmund Barton

  Religious, School, Years

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• All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.

  Emma Goldman

  Education, Mind, Accepting

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.29, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I regard the effort to introduce women into colleges for young men as very undesirable, and for many reasons. That the two sexes should be united, both as teachers and pupils, in the same institution seems very desirable, but rarely in early life by a method that removes them from parental watch and care, and the protecting influences of a home.

  Catharine Beecher

  Teacher, Sex, Home

  Catharine Esther Beecher (1872). “Woman's Profession as Mother and Educator: With Views in Opposition to Woman Suffrage”, p.69

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• The teacher does best, not when he explains, but when he impels his pupils to seek themselves the explanation.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Teacher, Doe, Explanation

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• As Michael (Chekhov)'s pupil, I learned more about acting. I learned psychology, history, and the good manners of art - taste.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Art, Psychology, Good Man

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• We should seek to be fellow students with the pupil, and should learn of, as well as with him, if we would be most helpful to him.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Educational, Would Be, Students

  Henry David Thoreau (1999). “Uncommon Learning: Thoreau on Education”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Almost all education has a political motive: it aims at strengthening some group, national or religious or even social, in the competition with other groups. It is this motive, in the main, which determines the subjects taught, the knowledge offered and the knowledge withheld, and also decides what mental habits the pupils are expected to acquire. Hardly anything is done to foster the inward growth of mind and spirit; in fact, those who have had the most education are very often atrophied in their mental and spiritual life.

  Bertrand Russell

  Spiritual, Religious, Educational

  "The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959".

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• We must learn to be honest with ourselves, and know our shortcomings. We will acquire cohesion but we will pay dearly for being a slow pupil.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Justice, Diversity, Pay

  Zora Neale Hurston (2002). “Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters”, Doubleday Books

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• Wherever there are beginners and experts, old and young, there is some kind of learning going on, some kind of teaching. We are all pupils and we are all teachers.

  Gilbert Highet

  Teacher, Teaching, Justice

  GILBERT HIGHET (1950). “THE ART OF TEACHING”

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• Liebig was not a teacher in the ordinary sense of the word. Scientifically productive himself in an unusual degree, and rich in chemical ideas, he imparted the latter to his advanced pupils, to be put by them to experimental proof; he thus brought his pupils gradually to think for themselves, besides showing and explaining to them the methods by which chemical problems might be solved experimentally.

  Hermann Kolbe

  Teacher, Science, Thinking

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