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Quotes About Pupils

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
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
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
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
For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.
~ Quintilian
Communists should set an example in study; at all times they should be pupils of the masses as well as their teachers.
~ Mao Zedong
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
Cresil leaned forward, his pupils shrinking to pinpoints of hate.
~ John Connolly
These researches renewed his commitment to analysis, which he now conceived more as a means to produce personal growth than as a technique for treating mental disorder, and he increasingly devoted his energy to teaching others, whether as pupils or patients, the same methods he had perfected during his own confrontation with the unconscious and which he had excavated in all their bizarre ambiguity from an occult science of the seventeenth century.
~ Anthony Stevens
Corvis smiled around a mouthful of venison, trying to catch the juices before they rolled down his chin. "I think you're being just a bit paranoid, Davro. Legends and superstition." "You'll change your tune quickly enough when some banshee's sucking your soul out through your pupils.
~ Ari Marmell
As for pupils, I can have as many as I choose, but I do not choose to take many. I intend to be better paid than others, and so I wish to have fewer scholars. It is advisable to hang back a little at first, or it is all over with you, and you must pursue the common highway with the rest.
~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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
There are times when you wake at dawn and check your neck for the marks of the vampire, those two little red dots, your pupils still contracted with hate, muscles weary from the struggle.
~ Marie Darrieussecq
Illusion is the most tenacious weed in the collective consciousness; history teaches, but it has no pupils.
~ Antonio Gramsci
His smile was so bright as he stood in my doorstep that I zoomed in for a closeup on his pupils. I couldn't take my eyes off him. I think I heard a spirit call my name.
~ Banana Yoshimoto
We know that if religion is allowed into schools, pupils will sometimes begin to question the teaching they receive.
~ Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
The school is the servant of the workshop and will one day be absorbed in it. Therefore there will be no teachers or pupils in the Bauhaus but masters, journeymen, and apprentices.
~ Walter Gropius
We need quantitative assessments of the success of education. We need certification and qualifications both for teachers and for pupils. It is not a choice between quantity and quality, between access and excellence. Both of these will happen together if people really do believe in the importance of education to change lives.
~ Gordon Brown
When I spoke to pupils at Sydenham School in London, I was shocked and saddened to hear some of the teenage girls say they felt pursuing a career in television was not even worth the effort as a Black woman.
~ A. J. Odudu
The master told his pupils, I will never ask you to bring me precious gifts but I will ask you to become worthy of receiving gifts.
~ Maryam Mafi
Do you think nobody would willingly entrust his children to you and pay you for teaching them? Why do you have to extort your fees and collect your pupils by compulsion?
~ Ayn Rand
Her eyes were open and glazed, a piercing shade of violet with fixed, bottomless pupils.
~ Barbara Davis
Then her real charm, the really deceptive enigma of her, was in her eyes; ashgrey eyes which seemed uncertain, myopic, and which conveyed an expression of resigned boredom. At certain moments the pupils glowed like a gem of grey water and sparks of silver twinkled to the surface. By turns they were dolent, forsaken, languorous, and haughty. He remembered that those eyes had often brought his heart into his throat!
~ Joris-Karl Huysmans
El vino da brillantez a las campiñas, exalta los corazones, enciende las pupilas y enseña a los pies la danza
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset