Top 201 Pupils Quotes & Sayings

I am showing my pupils details of an immense landscape which they cannot possibly know their way around.

I frequently meet ex-pupils who seem to think I didn't totally ruin their educations, so that's something.

I belong to Helmut Kohl's political pupils.

Education must assume full responsibility to enter the moral and spiritual lives of pupils.

Pupils may learn many things when a teacher is not in fact teaching.

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."

I have always said to my pupils: "Learn as much as you can about symbolism; then forget it when you are analyzing a dream."

Be pupils of the masses as well as their teachers.

I don't know a single conservative donor who is not fervently trying to improve urban schools or provide scholarships in order to liberate pupils from that educational wasteland.

I got good grades but no particular comment stands out in my memory, I'm afraid. I was one of those annoying and rather boring model pupils.

When we deal with death, the pupils will always be fixed and dilated, which indicates that there is no longer brain activity or response.

What the teachers digest, the pupils eat.

Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by the nose.

Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.

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.

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

On certain, delicate subjects, bringing in outsiders to talk about values is pertinent because pupils listen to them more attentively.

The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic.

While my father sang, Pedroza stared at me. By that time my eye pupils were staring at him, too, like a terrier that's got hold of a fox.

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.

Her pupils have taken on a lonely hue, like grey clouds reflected in a calm lake.

The school is the servant of the workshop and will one day be absorbed in it. Therefore there will be no teachers or pupils in the Bauhaus but masters, journeymen, and apprentices.

By studying the masters and not their pupils.

Progress is slow partly from mere intellectual inertia. In a subject where there is no agreed procedure for knocking out errors, doctrines have a long life. A professor teaches what he was taught, and his pupils, with a proper respect and reverence for teachers, set up a resistance against his critics for no other reason than that it was he whose pupils they were.

A game master or teacher who was primarily concerned with being close enough to the "innermost meaning" would be a very bad teacher. To be candid, I myself, for example, have never in my life said a word to my pupils about the "meaning" of music; if there is one it does not need my explanations. On the other hand I have always made a great point of having my pupils count their eighths and sixteenths nicely. Whatever you become, teacher, scholar, or musician, have respect for the "meaning" but do not imagine that it can be taught.

Over the years I've studied the habits of golfers. I know what to look for. Watch their eyes. Fear shows up when there is an enlargement of the pupils. Big pupils lead to big scores.

We know that if religion is allowed into schools, pupils will sometimes begin to question the teaching they receive.

A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils.

Tutors should behave reverently before their pupils.

He meant that when people laugh together, they cease to be young and old, master and pupils, jailer and prisoners. They become a single group of human beings enjoying its existence.

I think it likely that some of my pupils will reach unusual distinction.

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

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. Hector Berlioz It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils.

I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

When feminists become saints, we will become their pupils.

Teachers should be very careful not to spoil their pupils' taste for poetry for all time by making it a task and an imposition.

We do recognise the need to move towards the publication of information showing the progress made by pupils from one stage of their education to another.

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.

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

All my pupils are the creme de la creme. Give me a girl of an impressionable age, and she is mine for life.

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.

For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.

Don't preach too much to your pupils or abound in good talk in the abstract. Lie in wait rather for the practical opportunities, be prompt to seize those as they pass, and thus at one operation get your pupils both to think, to feel, and to do.

Select such subjects that your pupils cannot walk out without seeing them. Train your pupils to be observers, and have them provided with the specimens about which you speak. If you can find nothing better, take a house-fly or a cricket, and let each one hold a specimen and examine it as you talk.

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.

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

I want every Labour Council to lead a revolution in opening horizons for pupils and making better educational chances everyone's business.

The result desired by the state is a wholly different one from that desired by parents, guardians, and pupils.

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

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

Don't say I was an inspirational teacher - my former pupils would laugh their heads off. I was grossly incompetent, but I hope I didn't do the children a disservice.

Teachers are directed to instruct their pupils... and to awaken in them a sense of their responsibility toward the community of the nation.

In my school, racism was ubiquitous and unrelenting, and not just from the pupils. For a year I was terrorised by one of my teachers.

The printed word is no longer as in demand as when I was of the age of pupils or even at the age of the teachers teaching them.

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.

If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught.

Communists should set an example in study; at all times they should be pupils of the masses as well as their teachers.

My objective in teaching my pupils is that they should be fitted for any kind of art.

Too many pupils at schools in the U.K. want to have careers as footballers or TV hosts, or models, because that's what they're constantly exposed to as the heroes of our time.