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Teaching, I find, is not the most amusing thing on earth; in fact, with a stupid lump for a Pupil, it is about the most irksome. -- Jane Welsh Carlyle
You yourself are the Teacher, and the Pupil, you're the Master, you're the Guru, you are the Leader, you are Everything! And, to understand, is to transform what Is. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Today is yesterday's pupil. -- Thomas Fuller
I am a pupil of Pissarro. -- Paul Cezanne
A pupil is a great resource. -- Hudson Stuck
Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves? -- Diogenes
Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Nationally, overwhelmingly non-white schools receive $1,000 less per pupil than overwhelmingly white schools. -- Jonathan Kozol
A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions. -- Martin H. Fischer
Good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends. -- Maria Callas
All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves. -- Emma Goldman
I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher. -- Gertrude Stein
Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. -- Arthur Koestler
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. -- Horace Mann
The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free. -- Erich Maria Remarque
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
Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild. -- Dante Alighieri
When I was growing up, I wasn't an extrovert. If anything, I was an introverted kid and a very average pupil at school. I was very quiet. -- Clint Eastwood
Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it. -- Oscar Wilde
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
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
I was a good pupil at primary school: in the second class I was writing with no spelling mistakes, and the third and fourth classes were done in a single year. -- Jose Saramago
I'd propose that each central-city child should have an entitlement from the state to attend any school in the metropolitan area outside his own district - with per pupil funds going with him. -- James S. Coleman
As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking. -- William Godwin
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
To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion. -- Muriel Spark
To-day is the pupil of yesterday -- Publilius Syrus
Wit is the refractory pupil of judgment. -- William Shenstone
The pupil will eclipse his tutor, I warrant. -- Juvenal
Wit,--the pupil of the soul's clear eye. -- Sir John Davies
Man is a pupil, pain is his teacher. -- Alfred de Musset
The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pedagogical romances leave the mentor disgruntled, the pupil confused. -- Mason Cooley
The greater the teacher, the greater the pupil may become. -- Theodore M. Burton
You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I have become a pupil of the AA movement rather than the teacher. -- Bill W.
A genius is always a teacher, never a pupil; he is always self-made. -- Ludwig von Mises
One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
True undoubting is the teacher's part, continual undoubting the part of the pupil. -- Franz Kafka
The pupil wants not so much to learn, as to learn how to learn. -- Samuel Boden
I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher -- Mahatma Gandhi
I feel rather like a rabbit that has taken a fox for its pupil. -- Seth Grahame-Smith
TEACHER seeks pupil. Must have an earnest desire to save the world. Apply in person. -- Daniel Quinn
The cardinal virtue of a teacher [is] to protect the pupil from his own influence. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A teacher is frequently the only adult in the pupil's environment who treats him with respect. -- Bel Kaufman
All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil. -- Abraham Maslow
I must remain a child and pupil of the Catechism, and am glad so to remain. -- Martin Luther
To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. -- Muriel Spark
Twentieth pupil of the centuries knows its stuff and bird-changed this century like Jesus climbs the sky. -- Guillaume Apollinaire
Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well. -- Alfred North Whitehead
I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. -- Arthur Koestler
The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do. -- John Stuart Mill
How much longer are you going to be a pupil? From now on do some teaching as well. -- Seneca the Younger
I am too old to fawn upon a nurse, Too far in years to be a pupil now. -- William Shakespeare
Learning is a process of mutual discovery for teacher and pupil. Keep an open mind to their unexpected responses. -- Bel Kaufman
Zen is not interested in high-flown statements; it wants its pupil to bite his apple and not discuss it. -- Anne Bancroft
In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most important method of education always has consisted of that in which the pupil was urged to actual performance. -- Albert Einstein
A teacher should, above all things, first induce a desire in the pupil for the acquisition he wishes to impart. -- Horace Mann
Listen to a man's words and look at the pupil of his eye. How can a man conceal his character? -- Mencius
I will sit in the pupil of your eyes and that will carry your sight into the heart of the things -- Rabindranath Tagore
(I was) my own teacher and pupil, and thanks to the efforts of both, they were not discontented with each other. -- Andres Segovia
Don't you realize," Merlin said to his pupil, "that the history of the universe has brought us here to this second? -- Deepak Chopra
The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. -- Horace Mann
Originally a pupil of Liebig, I became a pupil of Dumas, Gerhardt and Williamson: I no longer belonged to any school. -- August Kekule
The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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
As Michael (Chekhov)'s pupil, I learned more about acting. I learned psychology, history, and the good manners of art - taste. -- Marilyn Monroe
Look deep into the pupil stare into the black, you'll be able to see the soul what is it doingLaughing? Dancing? Crying? Screaming? -- Shannon Leto
Naturally, it is with some temerity that the pupil speaks before the master, because you know more about the Common Market than anybody. -- Margaret Thatcher
I must try to remember that a boy's heart is not a man's, and perhaps a teacher must learn from his pupil, too, eh? -- David Clement-Davies
The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God. -- Victor Hugo
A true teacher should penetrate to whatever is vital in his pupil, and develop that by the light and heat of his own intelligence. -- Edwin Percy Whipple
To George Gershwin, on refusinghim as a pupil: You would only lose the spontaneous quality of your melody, and end by writing bad Ravel. -- Maurice Ravel
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
We must learn to be honest with ourselves, and know our shortcomings. We will acquire cohesion but we will pay dearly for being a slow pupil. -- Zora Neale Hurston
The pupil is ... 'schooled' to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new. -- Ivan Illich
Assuming that his talent can survive the increasing strain, there is one scarcely avoidable danger that lies ahead of the pupil on his road to mastery. -- Eugen Herrigel
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
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
Nature is schoolmistress, the soul the pupil; and whatever one has taught or the other has learned has come from God - the Teacher of the teacher. -- Tertullian
Many a bad habit is developed through overindulgence, and many a good one by chastisement; therefore, beat your son as well as your pupil; never indulge them. -- Chanakya
..enlarge the pupil of the eye, so that the body with its attendant personality will no longer obstruct the view. Immortality is then experienced as a present fact... -- Joseph Campbell
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
Nothing can be done about it: every master has but a single pupil--and he will not stay loyal to him--for he is also destined to become a master. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I was my own teacher and pupil, in a comradeship so firm and persevering that the most trying incidents of my life served only to strengthen the union... -- Andres Segovia
Atoms are round balls of wood invented by Dr. Dalton.(Answer given by a pupil to a question on atomic theory, as reported by Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe.) -- Henry Enfield Roscoe
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
For every one pupil who needs to be guarded from a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the slumber of cold vulgarity -- C. S. Lewis
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
In teaching, regard must be had to the faculties possessed by the pupil. In childhood, memory; in youth, the understanding; in mature life, the reason is the predominating faculty. -- Joseph P. Bradley
Far from wishing to awaken the artist in the pupil prematurely, the teacher considers it his first task to make him a skilled artisan with sovereign control of his craft. -- Eugen Herrigel
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
This, then, is what counts: a lightning reaction which has no further need of conscious observation. In this respect at least the pupil makes himself independent of all conscious purpose. -- Eugen Herrigel
The inequalities are greater now than in '92. Some states have equalized per-pupil spending but they set the 'equal level' very low, so that wealthy districts simply raise extra money privately. -- Jonathan Kozol
We should, if possible, prove a teacher to posterity, instead of being the pupil of by-gone generations. More shall come after us than have gone before; the world is not yet middle-aged. -- Herman Melville
The refractory pupil of Socrates, Aristippus the Cyrene, who believed happiness to be the sum of particular pleasures and golden moments and not, as Epicurus, a prolonged intermediary state between ecstasy and pain. -- Cyril Connolly
Dreams are things that could potentially be treating you as a pupil to teach you things so when you wake up, you'll be able to handle certain elements from those dreams in a better way. -- Tom DeLonge
Ingenuity in meeting and pursuing the pupil, that tact for the concrete situation, though they are the alpha and omega of the teacher's art, are things to which psychology cannot help us in the least. -- William James

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