Pupils Quotes
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Education should aim at destroying free will so that after pupils are thus schooled they will be incapable throughout the rest of their lives of thinking or acting otherwise than as their school masters would have wished.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte -
I belong to Helmut Kohl's political pupils.
Viktor Orban
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The secret of sound education is to get each pupil to learn for himself, instead of instructing him by driving knowledge into him on a stereotyped system.
Robert Baden-Powell -
I have become a pupil of the AA movement rather than the teacher.
William Griffith Wilson -
The very first step toward success in any occupation is to become interested in it. Locke put this in a very happy way when he said, give a pupil "a relish of knowledge" and you put life into his work.
William Osler -
Self-respect to be nourished in the mind of the pupil, is one of the most valuable results of a well conducted education.
William Godwin -
To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.
Muriel Spark -
I was watching Maury Povich the other day. He had these people on who say that they've had near death experiences. Do you ever notice they always say the same thing? 'I remember seeing this really bright, white light.' It's like, of course, you pinhead, it's the paramedic looking in your pupils with a penlight.
Carol Leifer
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Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
Hector Berlioz -
By staring at light bulbs during games. The light contracted his pupils, making his reactions harder to read.
Claude Shannon -
Wit is the refractory pupil of judgment.
William Shenstone -
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 -
Good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.
Maria Callas -
By studying the masters and not their pupils.
Niels Henrik Abel
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A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discovers are among them, as comets amongst the stars.
Carl Linnaeus -
The task of a teacher is not to work for the pupil nor to oblige him to work, but to show him how to work.
Wanda Landowska -
Her pupils have taken on a lonely hue, like grey clouds reflected in a calm lake.
Haruki Murakami -
Teachers are directed to instruct their pupils... and to awaken in them a sense of their responsibility toward the community of the nation.
Bernhard Rust -
A teacher can do very little for a pupil and should only be thankful if he don't hinder him, and the greater the master, mostly the less he can say.
Thomas Eakins -
He used to say that virtue could make herself devoted friends, but she did not take pupils.
Emile Souvestre