Pupils Quotes - Page 5

• Be pupils of the masses as well as their teachers.

  Mao Zedong

  Teacher, Communism, Mass

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• A good aim surveys the present state of experience of pupils, and forming a tentative plan of treatment, keeps the plan constantly in view and yet modifies it as conditions develop. The aim, in short, is experimental, and hence constantly growing as it is tested in action.

  John Dewey

  Views, Growing, Action

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.80, 谷月社

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• At certain times and in certain schools it is orthodox to be a rebel; and in general it is a very poor class that does not contain at least three pupils who can be counted on to oppose the teachers authority and loudly and persistently to question everything he says.

  Gilbert Highet

  Teacher, School, Class

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

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• So long as public schools are treated as places that exist to provide guaranteed jobs to members of the teachers' unions, do not be surprised to see American students continuing to score lower on international tests than students in countries that spend a lot less per pupil than we do.

  Thomas Sowell

  Country, Teacher, Jobs

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• A teacher should, above all things, first induce a desire in the pupil for the acquisition he wishes to impart.

  Horace Mann

  Teacher, Teaching, Desire

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• I was watching Maury Povich the other day. He had these people on who say that they've had near death experiences. Do you ever notice they always say the same thing? 'I remember seeing this really bright, white light.' It's like, of course, you pinhead, it's the paramedic looking in your pupils with a penlight.

  Carol Leifer

  Light, White, People

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• There is a perversion, much practised in Hollywood movies, that might be called sado-paternalism, whereby a surrogate father treats a gifted but difficult pupil with derision and constant punishment. The aim is to bring out the best in the victim and to make him into a he-man or...a he-woman.

  Philip French

  Father, Men, Hollywood

  "The Guardian" by Philip French, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2006.

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• To-day is the pupil of yesterday

  Publilius Syrus

  Yesterday

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• Zen is not interested in high-flown statements; it wants its pupil to bite his apple and not discuss it.

  Anne Bancroft

  Apples, Want, Not Interested

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• You yourself are the teacher, and the pupil, you're the master, you're the guru, you are the leader, you are everything! And, to understand is to transform what is.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Teacher, Leader, Guru

  "Zeitgeist". Documentary, History, 2007.

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• I believe in teaching just a few students, as teaching requires a constant alert observation on each individual in order to establish a direct relationship. A good teacher cannot be fixed in a routine, and many are just that. During teaching, each moment requires a sensitive mind that is constantly changing and constantly adapting.

  Bruce Lee

  Teacher, Believe, Order

  "Bruce Lee: Artist of Life".

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• The good teacher discovers the natural gifts of his pupils and liberates them by the stimulating influence of the inspiration that he can impart. The true leader makes his followers twice the men they were before.

  Stephen Neill

  Teacher, Inspiration, Men

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• The most recent example and the most, I think, appalling example was when Martin Peretz, the owner - and I stress owner - of The New Republic fired a journalist who I think was uncommonly skilled and full of integrity and passion and all that stuff. But he had criticized regularly the former pupil and friend of Martin Peretz, Al Gore, so he was fired. That's contrarianist that went around - that did - that was not rewarded.

  Nat Hentoff

  Integrity, Stress, Passion

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• Any piece of knowledge which the pupil has himself acquired- any problem which he has himself solved, becomes, by virtue of the conquest, much more thoroughly his than it could else be. The preliminary activity of mind which his success implies, the concentration of thought necessary to it, and the excitement consequent on his triumph, conspire to register the facts in his memory in a way that no mere information heard from a teacher, or read in a schoolbook, can be registered.

  Herbert Spencer

  Teacher, Memories, Learning

  Herbert Spencer (1861). “Education: intellectual, moral, and physical”, p.100

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• By studying the masters and not their pupils.

  Niels Henrik Abel

  Math, Science, Abel

  Niels Henrik Abel, Olav Arnfinn Laudal, Ragni Piene (2004). “The Legacy of Niels Henrik Abel: The Abel Bicentennial, Oslo, June 3-8, 2002”, p.353, Springer Science & Business Media

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• I must remain a child and pupil of the Catechism, and am glad so to remain.

  Martin Luther

  Children, Catechism, Glad

  Martin Luther (2012). “The Large Cathechism of Martin Luther”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• Many a bad habit is developed through overindulgence, and many a good one by chastisement; therefore, beat your son as well as your pupil; never indulge them.

  Chanakya

  Son, Habit, Beats

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• Nature is schoolmistress, the soul the pupil; and whatever one has taught or the other has learned has come from God - the Teacher of the teacher.

  Tertullian

  Teacher, Nature, Soul

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• He never pays attention, he always knows the answer, and he can never tell you how he knows. We can't keep thrashing him. He is a bad example to the other pupils. There's no educating a smart boy.

  Terry Pratchett

  Motivational, Smart, Boys

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• Nationally, overwhelmingly non-white schools receive $1,000 less per pupil than overwhelmingly white schools.

  Jonathan Kozol

  School, White

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• We saw one school-house in our walk, and listened to the sounds which issued from it; but it appeared like a place where the process, not of enlightening, but of obfuscating the mind was going on, and the pupils received only so much light as could penetrate the shadow of the Catholic church.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Education, School, Light

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Yankee in Canada”, p.35, Graphic Arts Books

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• Look deep into the pupil stare into the black, you'll be able to see the soul what is it doingLaughing? Dancing? Crying? Screaming?

  Shannon Leto

  Dancing, Soul, Black

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• The teacher not only shapes the expectations and ambitions of her pupils, but she also influences their attitudes toward their future and themselves. If she is unskilled, she leaves scars on the lives of youth, cuts deeply into their self-esteem, and distorts their image of themselves as human beings. But if she loves her students and has high expectations of them, their self-confidence will grow, their capabilities will develop, and their future will be assured.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Teacher, Attitude, Self Esteem

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• The invention of writing will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage the use of their own memory within them. You have invented an elixir not of memory, but of reminding; and you offer your pupils the appearance of wisdom, not true wisdom.

  Socrates

  Memories, Writing, Character

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• I don't like that sort of school... where the bright childish imagination is utterly discouraged... where I have never seen among the pupils, whether boys or girls, anything but little parrots and small calculating machines.

  Charles Dickens

  Girl, Creativity, School

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.14216, Delphi Classics

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