Tutor Quotes - Page 2

• One can read all one wants, and spend eternities in front of a blackboard with a tutor, but one is not going to learn to swim until one gets in the water.

  David Mamet

  Water, Swim, Want

  David Mamet (2011). “True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor”, p.80, Vintage

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• I never really get to go to school because I am always on tour or with my father. There is a tutor most of the time, but usually I am working so I never get to do the lessons. The worst thing about maths is all the kids are ahead of me because they go to school.

  Willow Smith

  Father, School, Kids

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A journalist is a grumbler, a censurer, a giver of advice, a regent of sovereigns, a tutor of nations. Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Education, Advice, Bayonets

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• 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.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Horse, Teaching, Leaving

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• The pupil will eclipse his tutor, I warrant.

  Juvenal

  Eclipse, Pupils, Warrants

  Juvenal (1839). “The Satires of Juvenal and Persius: From the Texts of Ruperti and Orellius: with English Notes, Partly Comp., and Partly Original”, p.338

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• As a person, when I was seven or eight, my dad would try very hard to tutor me through school because I had learning difficulties or whatever. I would wish that they could just plant a chip in my brain so that I would know everything and not have to study.

  Dichen Lachman

  Dad, School, Eight

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The Holy Ghost must here be our only master and tutor.

  Martin Luther

  Ghost, Holy, Masters

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.3

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• My favorite author is Anton Chekhov, not so much for the plays but for his short stories, and I think he was really my tutor.

  Gene Wilder

  Thinking, Play, Stories

  "Wilder Asks, 'What Is This Thing Called Love?'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. March 30, 2010.

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• For tutors, although they may make youth learned, do not always make them virtuous.

  Samuel Richardson

  Youth, Virtuous

  "The Works of Samuel Richardson: With a Sketch of His Life and Writings".

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• Yet, even for us, there is left some loveliness of environment, and the dullness of tutors and professors matters very little when one can loiter in the grey cloisters at Magdalen, and listen to some flute-like voice singing in Waynfleete's chapel, or lie in the green meadow, among the strange snakespotted fritillaries, and watch the sunburnt noon smite to a finer gold the tower's gilded vanes, or wander up the Christ Church staircase beneath the vaulted ceiling's shadowy fans, or pass through the sculptured gateway of Laud's building in the College of St. John.

  Oscar Wilde

  Lying, College, Oxford

  Oscar Wilde (1999). “De Profundis: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings”, p.231, Wordsworth Editions

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• At the age of eleven, I began Euclid, with my brother as my tutor. ... I had not imagined that there was anything so delicious in the world. After I had learned the fifth proposition, my brother told me that it was generally considered difficult, but I had found no difficulty whatsoever. This was the first time it had dawned on me that I might have some intelligence.

  Bertrand Russell

  Brother, Science, Age

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Autobiography”, p.25, Routledge

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• I volunteer with School on Wheels in Los Angeles, and I also tutor with Koreh L.A.

  Rachelle Lefevre

  School, Volunteer, Wheels

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't attend an actual school but I'm still following through with high school. I do work with a tutor for about six hours a day. It's hard core but definitely worth it, and it's my main focus now - finishing up high school before I release my new album and apply to college.

  Joanna Noelle Levesque

  School, College, Focus

  "Teen Talks To: JoJo". Interview with Audrey Fine, www.seventeen.com. September 7, 2017.

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• Why do so many young people literally die to belong to fraternities, sororities, and other college social organizations? The answer is complicated, but here is a starting point:
  Ever since the medieval universities were founded, young people have done whatever it takes to gain acceptance, to break with their past lives, to achieve a sense of power, to carve out a society of their own that isn't quite what their tutors and teachers had in mind. In the United States, hazing and drinking have been endemic since colonial days.

  Hank Nuwer

  Teacher, Drinking, Acceptance

  Hank Nuwer (2001). “Wrongs of Passage: Fraternities, Sororities, Hazing, and Binge Drinking”, p.194, Indiana University Press

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• I often think if you have time to sit around the house feeling bad for yourself, you have time to tutor a child. I'm guilty of that exact thing. I will spend more time sitting around feeling bad for myself than actually helping somebody.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Children, Thinking, House

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• My tutors at drama school commended and criticised my use of comedy in my acting for a long time at drama school. They said I had a tendency to somehow perform the most tragic of scenes in a slightly flippant way.

  John Bradley-West

  Drama, School, Long

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• When thou hast profited so much that thou respectest even thyself, thou mayst let go thy tutor.

  Seneca the Younger

  Letting Go, Thyself

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• Gerti didn’t ask for help.” Miri swallowed and tried to calm her quavering voice. “It was my fault.” “So it was. Now you all have learned that those who speak out of turn choose punishment for themselves and anyone they speak to.” “So if I speak to you, Tutor Olana, will you get the lashes?

  Shannon Hale

  Speaks Out, Punishment, Voice

  Shannon Hale (2010). “Princess Academy”, p.46, A&C Black

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• If so be that freewill were our tutor, and we had our heaven in our own keeping, then we would lose all. But because we have Christ for our tutor, and He has our heaven in His hand, therefore the covenant it must be perpetual.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Hands, Heaven, Covenant

  Samuel Rutherford (1885). “Quaint Sermons of Samuel Rutherford: Hitherto Unpublished”

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• Expert tutors often do not help very much. They hang back letting the student manage as much as possible. And when things go awry, rather than help directly they raise questions: 'Could you explain this step again? How did you... ?

  Mark Lepper

  Teaching, Learning, Raises Questions

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• Education is fantastic. In my case I had to split my university course so it took a few more years. I really want to excel at everything I do, so I sat down and spoke with both my swimming coach and my tutor and we worked out a good plan to get the best out of both my swimming and my education.

  Liam Tancock

  Swimming, Years, Splits

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• Shakespeare had no tutors but nature and genius. He caught his faults from the bad taste of his contemporaries. In an age still less civilized Shakespeare might have been wilder, but would not have been vulgar.

  Horace Walpole

  Age, Genius, Might

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• If a child is poor in math but good at tennis, most people would hire a math tutor. I would rather hire a tennis coach.

  Deepak Chopra

  Children, Math, People

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• I'm actually graduating early. I got a lot of work done already. Being home schooled, I have had a lot of tutors help me.

  Miley Cyrus

  Home, Done, Helping

  "Talking to Miley". Interview with Audrey Fine, www.seventeen.com. January 3, 2008.

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• Can rules or tutors educate
  The semigod whom we await?
  He must be musical,
  Tremulous, impressional,
  Alive to gentle influence
  Of landscape and of sky
  And tender to the spirit-touch
  Of man's or maiden's eye.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Eye, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.363

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