Top 193 Pupil Quotes & Sayings

In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

To-day is the pupil of yesterday

The cardinal virtue of a teacher [is] to protect the pupil from his own influence.

The pupil will eclipse his tutor, I warrant.

Good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.

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

Today is yesterday's pupil.

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

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

Don't you realize," Merlin said to his pupil, "that the history of the universe has brought us here to this second?

A pupil is a great resource.

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

A teacher can do very little for a pupil and should only be thankful if he don't hinder him, and the greater the master, mostly the less he can say.

I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil.

The man who is an initiate of one of the great Mystery Schools never fears to let his pupils outdistance him, because he knows that it stands him in good stead with his superiors if he is constantly sending up to them aspirants who 'make good.' He therefore never tries to hold back a promising pupil, because he has no need to fear that pupil, if allowed to penetrate into the Mysteries, would spy out the nakedness of the land; he will rather bring back a report of its exceeding richness, and thereby confirm the statements of his teacher and spur his fellow pupils to yet greater eagerness.

Self-respect to be nourished in the mind of the pupil, is one of the most valuable results of a well conducted education.

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

Nobody can guarantee the real terms per pupil funding increase. In the Labour party's manifesto we know the figures don't add up.

Man is a pupil, pain is his teacher.

How much longer are you going to be a pupil? From now on do some teaching as well.

In teaching, regard must be had to the faculties possessed by the pupil. In childhood, memory; in youth, the understanding; in mature life, the reason is the predominating faculty.

I am a pupil of Pissarro.

The most valuable thing a teacher can impart to children is not knowledge and understanding per se but a longing for knowledge and understanding, and an appreciation for intellectual values, whether they be artistic, scientific, or moral. It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. Most teachers waste their time by asking questions that are intended to discover what a pupil does not know, whereas the true art of questioning is to discover what the pupil does know or is capable of knowing.

Often nothing keeps the pupil on the move but his faith in his teacher, whose mastery is now beginning to dawn on him .... How far the pupil will go is not the concern of the teacher and master. Hardly has he shown him the right way when he must let him go on alone. There is only one thing more he can do to help him endure his loneliness: he turns him away from himself, from the Master, by exhorting him to go further than he himself has done, and to "climb on the shoulders of his teacher."

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

A teacher is frequently the only adult in the pupil's environment who treats him with respect.

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

I wasn't a good school pupil. I was interested in business.

Enlarge the pupil of the eye, so that the body with its attendant personality will no longer obstruct the view. Immortality is then experienced as a present fact.

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

I will venture to maintain that where the teacher is not pleasing to the pupil, there is no education.

The most important method of education always has consisted of that in which the pupil was urged to actual performance.

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

Pedagogical romances leave the mentor disgruntled, the pupil confused.

To George Gershwin, on refusinghim as a pupil: You would only lose the spontaneous quality of your melody, and end by writing bad Ravel.

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.

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

It is only when light is reduced that the pupil opens and feeling goes out of the eyes like touch.

(I was) my own teacher and pupil, and thanks to the efforts of both, they were not discontented with each other.

The pupil is ... 'schooled' to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new.

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!

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

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.

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.

A tutor should not be continually thundering instruction into the ears of his pupil, as if he were pouring it through a funnel, but, after having put the lad, like a young horse, on a trot, before him, to observe his paces, and see what he is able to perform, should, according to the extent of his capacity, induce him to taste, to distinguish, and to find out things for himself; sometimes opening the way, at other times leaving it for him to open; and by abating or increasing his own pace, accommodate his precepts to the capacity of his pupil.

I feel rather like a rabbit that has taken a fox for its pupil.

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

Twentieth pupil of the centuries knows its stuff and bird-changed this century like Jesus climbs the sky.

Wit,--the pupil of the soul's clear eye.

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

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

I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher

I have become a pupil of the AA movement rather than the teacher.

I started as a working pupil in a yard, mucking out and doing all the duties... and I just never gave up on my dream.

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.

Wit is the refractory pupil of judgment.

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.

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

Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.