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Quotes About Pupils

I don't know a single conservative donor who is not fervently trying to improve urban schools or provide scholarships in order to liberate pupils from that educational wasteland.
~ Heather Mac Donald
Her black hair, rough-cut and shining, brushed pale bare shoulders as she turned her head. She had no eyebrows, and both her lids and lashes seemed to have been dusted with something white, leaving her dark pupils in stark contrast.
~ William Gibson
Her four pupils bored into his, her white face perfectly immobile. "Altruism? What's happening to you?" "I don't know," he said.
~ William Gibson
I've managed to bring the backlog down to a mere sixty-eight years, she announced with some small sense of achievement. I hope to be able to start marking the papers of pupils who are still alive by the end of the decade.
~ Jasper Fforde
It is true that on bright days we are happy. That is true because the sun on the eyelids effects chemical changes in the body. The sun also diminishes the pupils to pinpricks, letting the light in less. When we can hardly see we are most likely to fall in love.
~ Jeanette Winterson
The reliability of stools? Solids, liquids, gases, the dance of atoms, the bounce and race of molecules, ethers, electrical charges. The eyes and habits of illusion. Retinal images, bogus images, traveling to the brain. The pupils trying to tell the truth to the inner eye. The eye of the heart. The eye of the head. The eye of the mind. All seeing differently.
~ Toni Cade Bambara
My objective in teaching my pupils is that they should be fitted for any kind of art.
~ Howard Pyle
War is a hard school, but the British, once compelled to go there, are attentive pupils.
~ Winston S. Churchill
Only his eyes changed. His pupils dilated, big liquid pools cracking like black yolks, spilling into his irises.
~ Jess Lourey
white crescents beneath the pupils made his pale blue eyes seem to protrude, though they did not: lacking depth, they appeared to be inset into the skin like stones in hide.
~ Peter Matthiessen
pupils were fixed in the position of wide black dilatation that signifies brain death, and obviously would never respond to light again.
~ Joan Didion
For every person who wants to teach there are approximately thirty people who don't want to learn--much.
~ W. C. Sellar
his pupils widening as he watched beautiful nature pictures, and it ends with two striking pictures of the same good-looking woman, who somehow appears much more attractive in one than in the other. There is only one difference: the pupils of the eyes appear dilated in the attractive picture and constricted in the other.
~ Daniel Kahneman
He liked to bewilder his pupils, it was a form of tyranny.
~ John Banville
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 simplicity or imperfection of external objects often serves to develop the activity and the dexterity of the pupils. This
~ Maria Montessori
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
~ Hector Berlioz
The tragedy of education is played in two scenes - incompetent pupils facing competent teachers and incompetent teachers facing competent pupils.
~ Martin H. Fischer
The tragedy of education is played in two scenes — incompetent pupils facing competent teachers and incompetent teachers facing competent pupils.
~ Martin H. Fischer
One editorial summed up a general feeling: pupils were going to mourn the loss of this "natural" education that "made the world a wonderful place" and a return to schools bound by rules and "copy-book maxims." Still, parents were warned that they could be prosecuted if they did not remove their children from Victoria and Zula's school and return them to a school holding the required Certificate of Efficiency.
~ Unknown
Venom's pupils contracted the instant before he slid his sunglasses back on. She couldn't help it. "Why isn't your tongue forked?" "Why can't you fly?" A smirk. "Those things on your back aren't accessories you know.
~ Nalini Singh
Both methods develop increased awareness that can lead to neural changes and neurodifferentiation. (Put differently, when Feldenkrais trained his pupils to refine their sensory awareness of how it felt to perform a movement, he was training them to make more use of the feedback provided by their senses.) Some introductory books on
~ Norman Doidge