Pupils Quotes - Page 4

• We should seek to be fellow students with the pupil, and should learn of, as well as with him, if we would be most helpful to him.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Educational, Would Be, Students

  Henry David Thoreau (1999). “Uncommon Learning: Thoreau on Education”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A teacher who establishes rapport with the taught, becomes one with them, learns more from them than he teaches them. He who learns nothing from his disciples is, in my opinion, worthless. Whenever I talk with someone I learn from him. I take from him more than I give him.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Education, Teacher, Attitude

  "Collected Works".

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• Most teachers waste their time by asking question which are intended to discover what a pupil does not know whereas the true art of questioning has for its purpose to discover what pupils knows or is capable of knowing.

  Albert Einstein

  Motivational, Education, Teacher

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• If, then, you wish to insure the interest of your pupils, there is only one way to do it; and that is to make certain that they have something in their minds to attend with, when you begin to talk. That something can consist in nothing but a previous lot of ideas already interesting in themselves, and of such a nature that the incoming novel objects which you present can dovetail into them and form with them some kind of a logically associated or systematic whole.

  William James

  Philosophy, Educational, Ideas

  William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.80, Nuvision Pubns

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• If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples. If it be unfamiliar, trace some point of analogy in it with the known. If it be inhuman, make it figure as part of a story. If it be difficult, couple its acquisition with some prospect of personal gain. Above all things, make sure that it shall run through certain inner changes, since no unvarying object can possibly hold the mental field for long.

  William James

  Running, Couple, Educational

  "Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals".

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• The art of remembering is the art of thinking. When we wish to fix a new thing in either our own mind or a pupil's, our conscious effort should not be so much to impress and retain it as to connect it with something else already there. The connecting is the thinking; and, if we attend clearly to the connection, the connected thing will certainly be likely to remain within recall.

  William James

  Art, Philosophy, Educational

  William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.70, Cosimo, Inc.

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• You perceive now, my friends, what your general or abstract duty is as teachers. Although you have to generate in your pupils a large stock of ideas, any one of which may be inhibitory, yet you must also see to it that no habitual hesitancy or paralysis of the will ensues, and that the pupil still retains his power of vigorous action.

  William James

  Teacher, Philosophy, Educational

  William James (1983). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.108, Harvard University Press

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• I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, School, Knowledge

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• In Randori we teach the pupil to act on the fundamental principles of Judo, no matter how physically inferior his opponent may seem to him, and even if by sheer strength he can easily overcome him; because if he acts contrary to principle his opponent will never be convinced of defeat, no matter what brute strength he may have used.

  Kano Jigoro

  Fundamentals, May, Opponents

  "Judo: The Japanese Art of Self Defense". "A Complete Guide to Judo: Its Story and Practice" by Robert W. Smith, judoinfo.com. 1958.

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• Reason must approach nature with the view, indeed, of receiving information from it, not, however, in the character of a pupil, who listens to all that his master chooses to tell him, but in that of a judge, who compels the witnesses to reply to those questions which he himself thinks fit to propose. To this single idea must the revolution be ascribed, by which, after groping in the dark for so many centuries, natural science was at length conducted into the path of certain progress.

  Immanuel Kant

  Nature, Character, Dark

  Immanuel Kant (1855). “Critique of Pure Reason”, p.27

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• Since Pawlow [Pavlov] and his pupils have succeeded in causing the secretion of saliva in the dog by means of optic and acoustic signals, it no longer seems strange to us that what the philosopher terms an 'idea' is a process which can cause chemical changes in the body.

  Jacques Loeb

  Dog, Mean, Ideas

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• Let our pupil be taught that he does not belong to himself, but that he is public property. Let him be taught to love his family, but let him be taught at the same time that he must forsake and even forget them when the welfare of his country requires it.

  Benjamin Rush

  Country, School, Doe

  Benjamin Rush (1988). “Essays: Literary, Moral and Philosophical”, Union College

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• In his wretched life of less than twenty-seven years Abel accomplished so much of the highest order that one of the leading mathematicians of the Nineteenth Century could say without exaggeration, "Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for five hundred years." Asked how he had done all this in the six or seven years of his working life, Abel replied, "By studying the masters, not the pupils."

  Eric Temple Bell

  Seven Years, Order, Abel

  Eric Temple Bell (1938). “The queen of the sciences”

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• If the government announced that it was going to allocate a vast tranche of education funding purely to the pupils at the best public schools, there would be a national outcry - and yet this is precisely what the Olympics represents in terms of sports funding.

  Will Self

  Sports, School, Government

  "Not in my manor" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2006.

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• 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.

  Stephen Curry

  Memories, Annoying, Boring

  Source: www.thefreethinktank.com

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• She couldn't tell where his pupils ended and the irises began; looking into those eyes was like looking into a well where children had drowned.

  MaryJanice Davidson

  Children, Eye, Irises

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

  Paul Q. Hirst

  Teacher, Teaching, May

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• The understanding which has driven New Labour's reform is to put the individual citizen - the patient, the parent, the pupil, the law abiding citizen - at the centre of each public service, with the service reformed to meet their individual requirements

  Tony Blair

  Law, Parent, Understanding

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• You may dazzle the mind with a thousand brilliant discoveries of natural science; you may open new worlds of knowledge which were never dreamed of before; yet, if you have not developed in the soul of the pupil strong habits of virtue which will sustain her in the struggle of life, you have not educated her, but only put in her hand a powerful instrument of self-destruction.

  Rose Philippine Duchesne

  Faith, Strong, Powerful

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

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Taken, Rabbits, Foxes

  Seth Grahame-Smith (2010). “Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter”, p.63, Hachette UK

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• Will’s eyes met Tessa’s as she came closer, almost tripping again over the torn hem of her gown. For a moment, they were in perfect understanding. Jem was what they could still look each other straight in the eye about. On the topic of Jem, they were both fierce and unyielding. Tessa saw Will’s hand tighten on Jem’s sleeve. “She’s here,” he said. Jem’s eyes opened slowly. Tessa fought to keep the look of shock from her face. His pupils were blown out, his irises a thin ring of silver around the black. “Ni shou shang le ma, quin ai de?” he whispered.

  Cassandra Clare

  Eye, Hands, Perfect

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• What I mean is that if you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else. That forces you to sort it out in your mind. And the more slow and dim-witted your pupil, the more you have to break things down into more and more simple ideas. And that's really the essence of programming. By the time you've sorted out a complicated idea into little steps that even a stupid machine can deal with, you've learned something about it yourself... The teacher usually learns more than the pupils. Isn't that true?

  Douglas Adams

  Teacher, Stupid, Mean

  "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency". Book by Douglas Adams, 1987.

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• Even though I'm surrounded by pupils, there is the invisible screen screen between us, and behind the glass wall I am screaming - screaming in my own silence, screaming to be noticed, to be befriended, to be liked.

  Tabitha Suzuma

  Wall, Glasses, Silence

  Tabitha Suzuma (2012). “Forbidden”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• Perhaps I fear him because I could love him again, and in loving him, I would come to need him, and in needing him, I would again be his faithful pupil in all things, only to discover that his patience for me is no substitute for the passion which long ago blazed in his eyes.

  Anne Rice

  Passion, Eye, Long Ago

  Anne Rice (2009). “The Vampire Armand: The Vampire Chronicles 6”, p.375, Random House

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• Your scare me rather. My reflection in the glass never did that; of course, I knew it so well. Like something I had tamed...I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Reflection, Glasses, Heaven

  Jean Paul Sartre (1955). “No exit, and three other plays”, Vintage

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