Pupils Quotes

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

  Arthur Koestler

  Inspiring, Teacher, Educational

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

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Teacher, Doe, Explanation

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Education, Appreciation

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• The greater the teacher, the greater the pupil may become.

  Theodore M. Burton

  Teacher, Teaching, May

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  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.

  John Dewey

  Education, Teaching, Thinking

  John Dewey (1980). “The Middle Works, 1899-1924”, p.161, SIU Press

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

  Horace Mann

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Education

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.225

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

  Oscar Hammerstein II

  Music, Teacher, Taught

  "Song: 'Getting to Know You'". "The King and I". Musical by Oscar Hammerstein II, 1956.

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

  Albert Einstein

  Education, Important, Method

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.27, Open Road Media

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• Association with my pupils has kept me young in my work. Criticism of their work has kept my own point of view clear.

  William Merritt Chase

  Views, Criticism, Association

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• Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Life, Mean, Reality

  P. G. Wodehouse (2012). “The Man Upstairs: And Other Stories”, p.11, The Floating Press

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• It is because they have no Oyarsa,' said one of the pupils. It is because everyone of them wants to be a little Oyarsa himself,' said Augray.

  C. S. Lewis

  Want, Littles, Said

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Out of the Silent Planet”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• 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!

  Anne Sullivan Macy

  Education, Morning, Teaching

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

  Bill Bowerman

  Teacher, Smart, Teaching

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• A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change. So it's a matter of fitting your current practices to fit the event and the individual. See, what's good for you might not be worth a darn for the next guy.

  Bill Bowerman

  Running, Teacher, Smart

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• 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.

  Maria Callas

  Education, Teacher, Mean

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• 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.

  Alfred Adler

  Inspirational, Motivational, Education

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• Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.

  Muriel Spark

  Girl, Giving, Age

  FaceBook post by Muriel Spark from Feb 01, 2017

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

  Douglas Hurd

  Country, Teaching, Lessons

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• I taught principally German language and literature at Eton. But any master with private pupils must be prepared to teach anything they ask for. That can be as diverse as the early paintings of Salvador Dali or how bumblebees manage to fly.

  John le Carre

  German Language, Bumblebees, Literature

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

  Hector Berlioz

  Life, Music, Death

  "About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution". Book by Paul Davies, 1996.

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• My world was completely different to other boys my age. When I was six I was earning money, and by 10 I was paying more tax than the parents of other pupils. I feel a lot older than my years. Because I was working with adults, I had to mature a lot quicker.

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson

  Boys, Years, Parent

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• The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  "Orphic Sayings: LXXX. Teacher". "The Dial", www.alcott.net. January 1841.

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

  Emma Goldman

  Education, Mind, Accepting

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.29, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I was for two years a pupil at the Model School in Fort street which was then conducted upon the Irish national system, and if any special religious instruction was given in connection with that system, I do not recollect it.

  Edmund Barton

  Religious, School, Years

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• I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.

  Gertrude Stein

  Teacher, Literature, Ifs

  Gertrude Stein (2016). “Three Lives”, p.251, Simon and Schuster

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