Pupils Quotes - Page 11

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Teacher, Influence, Virtue

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1973). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1847-1848”, p.471, Harvard University Press

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• Thus having been undeservedly accepted at the Conservatory as a professor, I soon became one of its best and possibly its very best pupil, judging by the quantity and value of the information it gave me!

  Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

  Judging, Information, Accepted

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• The reason for teaching history is not that it changes society, but that it changes pupils; it changes what they see in the world, and how they see it.... To say someone has learnt history is to say something very wide ranging about the way in which he or she is likely to make sense of the world. History offers a way of seeing almost any substantive issue in human affairs, subject to certain procedures and standards, whatever feelings one may have.

  Peter Lee

  Teaching, Issues, Feelings

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• 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.

  Alfred Adler

  Teacher, Fighting, Principles

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• I was never capable of being an average pupil. I would either seem refractory to any teaching and give the impression of being completely dumb or I would fling myself on my work with a frenzy, a patience, and a willingness to learn that astonished everybody. But to awaken my zeal, it was necessary to offer me something I liked. Once my appetite had been whetted, I became ravenously hungry.

  Salvador Dali

  Teaching, Average, Giving

  "Diary of a Genius". Book by Salvador Dali, pp. 5-6, 1964.

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• A genius is always a teacher, never a pupil; he is always self-made.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Teacher, Self, Genius

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Bureaucracy: The Economist”, p.13, VM eBooks

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• The pupil's imagination is 'schooled' to accept service in place of value. Medical treatment is mistaken for health care, social work for the improvement of community life, police protection for safety, military poise for national security, the rat race for productive work.

  Ivan Illich

  Military, Race, Productive Work

  Ivan Illich (1970). “The Dawn of Epimethean Man, and Other Essays”

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

  Guillaume Apollinaire

  Jesus, Sky, Bird

  Guillaume Apollinaire (2011). “Alcools: Poems”, p.5, Wesleyan University Press

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

  Ernest Shackleton

  Teacher, Taste, Tasks

  Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1991). “South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917”, Random House (UK)

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

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Symbolism, Analyzing

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• Miranda [Hentoff] is a complete musician. She's a composer, a singer. She writes scripts along - with her projects. And she's a superb teacher. Her teaching pupils have ranged from Itzhak Perlman to Sting.

  Nat Hentoff

  Teacher, Teaching, Writing

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• I am now of all humors that have showed themselves humors
  since the old days of goodman Adam to the pupil age of this
  present twelve o'clock at midnight.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Age, Midnight

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Henry IV”, p.69, Penguin

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Teacher, Book, Felt

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.150, Courier Corporation

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• And Harry, with the unerring skill of the Seeker, caught the wand in his free hand as Voldemort fell backward, arms splayed, the slit pupils of the scarlet eyes rolling upward. Tom Riddle hit the floor with a mundane finality, his body feeble and shrunken, the white hands empty, the snakelike face vacant and unknowing. Voldemort was dead, killed by his own rebounding curse, and Harry stood with two wands in his hands, staring down at his enemy's shell.

  J. K. Rowling

  Eye, Hands, Skills

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• I've managed to bring the backlog down to a mere sixty-eight years," she announced with some small sense of achievement. "I hope to be able to start marking the papers of pupils who are still alive by the end of the decade.

  Jasper Fforde

  Teacher, Eight, Years

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• When a man you know to be of sound mind tells you his recently deceased mother has just tried to climb in his bedroom window and eat him, you only have two basic options. You can smell his breath, take his pulse and check his pupils to see if he's ingested anything nasty, or you can believe him.

  Richard K. Morgan

  Mother, Believe, Men

  Richard K. Morgan (2009). “The Steel Remains”, p.3, Del Rey

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

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Realizing, Said

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• The heavy eyelids snapped open. Jack froze. A huge gold-and-amber eye, as big as a dinner plater, stared at him. The dark pupil shrank, focusing. Jack stood very still. The colossal head turned, the scaled lip only three feet from Jack. The golden eyes gazed at him, wirling with fiery color. Jack breathed in tiny, shallow breaths. Dont blink. Don't blink... Two gusts of wind erutped from the wyvern's nostrils Jack jumped straight up, bounced off the ground into another jump, and scrambled up the nearest tree. In the clearing, Gaston bent over, guffawing like an idiot. 'It's not funny!

  Ilona Andrews

  Eye, Dark, Color

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• But a topee is not a turban, and I had been my teacher's pupil before I became my husband's wife, learning to my bones that half a disguise is none at all...The moment my short-cropped, pomade-sleek, unquestionably masculine hair passed beneath his nose was the closest thing I've ever seen Holmes to fainting dead away.

  Laurie R. King

  Teacher, Husband, Hair

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• What parts had she discarded for the sake of her sanity? What had she cut from herself? Had he stared into her pupils he would have emerged, bewildered and blinking, on the far side of the earth. Was he awed by her? Absolutely. Did he respect her? Unequivocally. Want to be anything like her? No, never, not at all.

  Anthony Marra

  Cutting, Earth, Want

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• Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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

  Quintilian

  Teacher, Learning, Pride

  Quintilian (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)”, p.24, Delphi Classics

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

  Mao Zedong

  Teacher, Example, Study

  Zedong Mao (1971). “Mao Tse-tung chu tso hsüan tu”

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• 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."

  Eugen Herrigel

  Teacher, Loneliness, Teaching

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• A Dominican monk, Father Henri Didon, used it as a watchword for his pupils in sports at Arcueil College in Paris. Baron Pierre De Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympics, made it the Olympic Games ideal adopted at the Antwerp Games in 1920. I never mentioned winning to my players. I mentioned constantly that all I wanted them to do was the best they could. If they're good enough, the score will be to their liking; if they're not, it won't be but that's nothing to hang their head about. Sometimes the other fellow is just better than you are.

  John Wooden

  Sports, Father, Winning

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