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If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught. -- Oscar Hammerstein II
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. -- Hector Berlioz
Pupils may learn many things when a teacher is not in fact teaching. -- Paul Q. Hirst
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
If we are any good we must always be working towards the moment at which our Pupils are fit to become our Critics & Rivals -- C. S. Lewis
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
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
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
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
I want to see far more decisions taken far closer to the patients, the passengers and the pupils. Far more power for locally and regionally elected politicians who understand best the needs of their areas. And far more say too for the dedicated staff at all levels in health and education. -- Charles Kennedy
A pupil is a great resource. -- Hudson Stuck
Wit,--the pupil of the soul's clear eye. -- Sir John Davies
Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves? -- Diogenes
Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master. -- Leonardo da Vinci
A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. -- Bill Bowerman
To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. -- Muriel Spark
I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn. -- Albert Einstein
Creativity is a type of learning process where the 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
Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by the nose. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
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
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
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
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
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
All my pupils are the creme de la creme. Give me a girl of an impressionable age, and she is mine for life. -- Muriel Spark
When we deal with death, the pupils will always be fixed and dilated, which indicates that there is no longer brain activity or response. -- Ann Hood
I get an awful lot of people coming up and saying they went to school with me. There must have been 80,000 pupils at that school! -- James Nesbitt
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
We do recognise the need to move towards the publication of information showing the progress made by pupils from one stage of their education to another. -- Estelle Morris
The printed word is no longer as in demand as when I was of the age of pupils or even at the age of the teachers teaching them. -- Tom Stoppard
While my father sang, Pedroza stared at me. By that time my eye pupils were staring at him, too, like a terrier that's got hold of a fox. -- Barry McGuigan
Too many pupils at schools in the U.K. want to have careers as footballers or TV hosts, or models, because that's what they're constantly exposed to as the heroes of our time. -- Sugata Mitra
From the age of about five to twelve I was very bad, a hideous little terror who beat people up. I was a member of the Rough Gang - we went around and terrorized all the pupils in school. -- Joseph Fiennes
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
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 Johnson
As to the 'St. Michael,' the subject is very fine, but very difficult, so I doubt that I shall find easily amongst my pupils one capable of carrying it out satisfactorily even after my own drawing. In any case, it will be necessary for me to touch it up carefully with my own hand. -- Peter Paul Rubens
One school invited me down, as two pupils had come out, and the headmaster didn't know what to do about it. I said, 'How many students here are gay?' and he said, 'Just these two.' Clearly not. 'How many gay members of staff have you got?' He had no idea. And this was a concerned man. -- Ian Mckellen
The stories my pupils told me were astonishing. One told how he had witnessed his cousin being shot in the back five times; another how his parents had died of AIDS. Another said that he'd probably been to more funerals than parties in his young life. For me - someone who had had an idyllic, happy childhood - this was staggering. -- Erin Gruwell
What the teachers digest, the pupils eat. -- Karl Kraus
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By studying the masters and not their pupils. -- Niels Henrik Abel
History is an excellent teacher with few pupils. -- Will Durant
When feminists become saints, we will become their pupils. -- Peter Kreeft
Be pupils of the masses as well as their teachers. -- Mao Zedong
A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence. -- Bruce Lee
I think it likely that some of my pupils will reach unusual distinction. -- Howard Pyle
The good teacher discovers the natural gifts of his pupils and liberates them. -- Stephen Neal
Education must assume full responsibility to enter the moral and spiritual lives of pupils. -- Sai Baba
If you are not prepared to look at your pupils strength's, don't touch their weaknesses. -- Reuven Feuerstein
You'll change your tune quickly enough when some banshee's sucking your soul out through your pupils. -- Ari Marmell
Her pupils have taken on a lonely hue, like grey clouds reflected in a calm lake. -- Haruki Murakami
My objective in teaching my pupils is that they should be fitted for any kind of art. -- Howard Pyle
I am showing my pupils details of an immense landscape which they cannot possibly know their way around. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
The teacher does best, not when he explains, but when he impels his pupils to seek themselves the explanation. -- John Lancaster Spalding
The result desired by the state is a wholly different one from that desired by parents, guardians, and pupils. -- Lester Frank Ward
I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
You teacher, teach your pupils freedom in thought and deed, honesty in thought and deed, and tolerance in thought and deed. -- Ameen Rihani
For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience. -- Quintilian
Every spring he vowed to quit teaching school, and every summer he missed his pupils and searched for them on the streets. -- Annie Dillard
Communists should set an example in study; at all times they should be pupils of the masses as well as their teachers. -- Mao Zedong
It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. -- Niels Henrik Abel
I abhor the supreme folly of those who blame the disciples of nature in defiance of those masters who were themselves her pupils -- Leonardo da Vinci
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
We're spending, on average, three times more for prison than for public-school pupils. That's the dumbest investment policy. It doesn't make us safer. -- Marian Wright Edelman
I have always said to my pupils: "Learn as much as you can about symbolism; then forget it when you are analyzing a dream." -- Carl Jung
Teachers should be very careful not to spoil their pupils' taste for poetry for all time by making it a task and an imposition. -- Ernest Shackleton
Perhaps teachers must be good actors where lessons are concerned, but in life outside the class, we mustn't hide from our pupils our individual spirits. -- Larisa Kuznetsova
I would rather teach drawing that my pupils may learn to love nature, than teach the looking at nature that they may learn to draw. -- John Ruskin
He turned his gaze upon her, and their eyes not only met, the pupils shook hands, exchanged business cards, and sat down for tea together. -- John Moore
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
If a teacher have any opinion which he wishes to conceal, his pupils will become as fully indoctrinated into that as into any which he publishes. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
An academical system without the personal influence of teachers on pupils, is an arctic winter; it will create an icebound, petrified, cast-iron University, and nothing else. -- John Henry Newman
I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, 'Verify your quotations. -- Winston Churchill
Making disciples isn't about gathering pupils to listen to your teaching. The real focus is not on teaching people at allâ??the focus is on loving them. -- Francis Chan
The bad teacher imposes his ideas and his methods on his pupils, and such originality as they may have is lost in the second-rate art of imitation. -- Stephen Neill
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. Hector Berlioz It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. -- Alfred Adler
Wherever there are beginners and experts, old and young, there is some kind of learning going on, some kind of teaching. We are all pupils and we are all teachers. -- Gilbert Highet
I am a tarsier and a tarsier's son, the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers, a tiny creature, made up of two pupils and whatever simply could not be left out... -- Wislawa Szymborska
The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic. -- C. S. Lewis
It would be a great advantage to some schoolmasters if they would steal two hours a day from their pupils and give their own minds the benefit of the robbery. -- John Frederick Boyes
I clench his hands to the point of pain. "Stay with me." His pupils contract to pinpoints, dialate again rapidly, and then return to something resembling normalcy. "Always," he murmurs. -- Suzanne Collins
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If I were a headmaster, I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead and my pupils would study a subject that affected all of them. -- Roald Dahl
Do you think nobody would willingly entrust his children to you or pay you for teaching them? Why do you have to extort your fees and collect your pupils by compulsion? -- Isabel Paterson
He meant that when people laugh together, they cease to be young and old, master and pupils, jailer and prisoners. They become a single group of human beings enjoying its existence. -- Gilbert Highet
No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection toward his pupils and a genuine desire to impart to them what he believes to be of value. -- Bertrand Russell
The good pupils are often brilliant, and they keep you on your toes and take you to the limits of your knowledge. The worst pupils provide a unique insight into the criminal mind. -- John le Carre
At times God's best pupils experience the most rigorous and continuous courses. Eventually those who prove to be men of Christ will thereby become distinguished alumni of life's school of affliction, graduating with honors. -- Neal A. Maxwell
Children in school are not students, they are pupils. It is typical of certain kinds of politicians that they should regard children as adults, the better subsequently, and consequently, to regard adults as children. -- Anthony Daniels
Miranda [Hentoff] is a complete musician. She's a composer, a singer. She writes scripts along - with her projects. And she's a superb teacher. Her teaching pupils have ranged from Itzhak Perlman to Sting. -- Nat Hentoff
Our task as we grow older in a rapidly advancing science, is to retain the capacity of joy in discoveries which correct older ideas, and to learn from our pupils as we teach them. -- Hans Zinsser
Teaching can be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless someone buys ... yet there are teachers who think they have done a good day's teaching irrespective of what the pupils have learned. -- John Dewey
When God means you to be a healer he sends you patients; when he makes you a teacher he sends you pupils; when he destines you to be a Master he sends you stories . -- Anthony de Mello
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. (Le temps est un grand maÃ®tre, dit-on; le malheur est qu'il soit un maÃ®tre inhumain qui tue ses Ã©lÃ¨ves.) -- Hector Berlioz
Over the years I've studied the habits of golfers. I know what to look for. Watch their eyes. Fear shows up when there is an enlargement of the pupils. Big pupils lead to big scores. -- Sam Snead
The virtue and the strength of UWC is that it provides small, but powerful cells of innovation, catalysts for change, breaking barriers of habit and opening broader vistas of experience for both pupils and educationalists. -- Nelson Mandela
I don't like that sort of school... where the bright childish imagination is utterly discouraged... where I have never seen among the pupils, whether boys or girls, anything but little parrots and small calculating machines. -- Charles Dickens

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