Pupils Quotes - Page 4

• 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 Sr.

  Inspirational, Eye, Science

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Autocrat Of The Breakfast Table”, p.144, Reprint Services Corporation

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• No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection toward his pupils and a genuine desire to impart to them what he believes to be of value.

  Bertrand Russell

  Teacher, Believe, Teaching

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.417, Routledge

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• For every one pupil who needs to be guarded against a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the slumber of cold vulgarity. The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts.

  C. S. Lewis

  Cutting, Tasks, Three

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.240, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspiring, Teacher, Mastery

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.90, Tuttle Publishing

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• TEACHER seeks pupil. Must have an earnest desire to save the world. Apply in person.

  Daniel Quinn

  Teacher, Desire, World

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “My Ishmael”, p.3, Bantam

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• I was her bestist pupil in the Beckman School for retarted adults and I tryed the hardist becus I reely wantd to lern I wantid it more even then pepul who are smarter even then me.

  Daniel Keyes

  School, Adults, Smarter

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• I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Heaven, My Smile, Knows

  Jean Paul Sartre (1955). “No exit, and three other plays”, Vintage

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• I would have things as they were in all the days of my life, and in the days of my longfathers before me: to be the Lord of this City in peace, and leave my chair to a son after me, who would be his own master and no wizard's pupil.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Son, Cities, Would Be

  "The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings".

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• One is born to be a dancer. No teacher can work miracles, nor will years of training make a good dancer of an untalented pupil. One may be able to acquire a certain technical facility, but no one can ever 'acquire an exceptional talent.' I have never prided myself on having an unusually gifted pupil. A Pavlova is no one's pupil but God's.

  George Balanchine

  Dance, Teacher, Years

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• A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discovers are among them, as comets amongst the stars.

  Carl Linnaeus

  Education, Stars, Clever

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• The good teacher discovers the natural gifts of his pupils and liberates them.

  Stephen Neal

  Teacher, Teaching, Learning

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• I must try to remember that a boy's heart is not a man's, and perhaps a teacher must learn from his pupil, too, eh?

  David Clement-Davies

  Teacher, Heart, Boys

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• Their pupils and their little charges are not nourished and fed by what they learn: the learning is passed from hand to hand with only one end in view: to show it off, to put into our accounts to entertain others with it, as though it were merely counters, useful for totting up and producing statements, but having no other use or currency. 'Apud alios loqui didicerunt, non ipsi secum' [They have learned how to talk with others, not with themselves]

  Michel de Montaigne

  Educational, Hands, Views

  Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

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• 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, the material to be learned in the various subjects is so swollen that only a fraction of it remains in the head of the individual pupil, and only a fraction of this abundance can find application, while on the other hand it is not adequate for the man working and earning his living in a definite field.

  Adolf Hitler

  Education, Science, Men

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• Listen to a man's words and look at the pupil of his eye. How can a man conceal his character?

  Mencius

  Character, Eye, Men

  Confucius, Mencius, Ming Zuoqiu, Tso-ch'iu Ming (1861). “The Chinese Classics”, p.182

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• If we are any good we must always be working towards the moment at which our Pupils are fit to become our Critics & Rivals

  C. S. Lewis

  Rivals, Fit, Moments

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The right kind of practice is not a matter of hours. Practice should represent the utmost concentration of brain. It is better to play with concentration for two hours than to practice eight without. I should say that four hours would be a good maximum practice time-I never ask more of my pupils-and that during each minute of the time the brain be as active as the fingers.

  Leopold Auer

  Eight, Practice, Play

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• PERIPATETIC, adj. Walking about. Relating to the philosophy of Aristotle, who, while expounding it, moved from place to place in order to avoid his pupil's objections. A needless precaution - they knew no more of the matter than he.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Philosophy, Order, Matter

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.161, 谷月社

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• Every spring he vowed to quit teaching school, and every summer he missed his pupils and searched for them on the streets.

  Annie Dillard

  Summer, Spring, Teaching

  Annie Dillard (1994). “The Annie Dillard reader”, Harpercollins

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• Originally a pupil of Liebig, I became a pupil of Dumas, Gerhardt and Williamson: I no longer belonged to any school.

  August Kekule

  School, Science, Students

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• I abhor the supreme folly of those who blame the disciples of nature in defiance of those masters who were themselves her pupils

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Blame, Masters, Defiance

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.118, eKitap Projesi

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• 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

  Writing, Quality, Ravel

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• Naturally, it is with some temerity that the pupil speaks before the master, because you know more about the Common Market than anybody.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Common, Speak, Masters

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• I have a true aversion to teaching. The perennial business of a professor of mathematics is only to teach the ABC of his science; most of the few pupils who go a step further, and usually to keep the metaphor, remain in the process of gathering information, become only Halbwisser [one who has superficial knowledge of the subject], for the rarer talents do not want to have themselves educated by lecture courses, but train themselves. And with this thankless work the professor loses his precious time.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Education, Teaching, Science

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• I am a pupil of Pissarro.

  Paul Cezanne

  Artist

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