Top 39 Quotes About Teaching Pupils
#2. What one reads, or rather all that comes to us, is surely only of interest and value in proportion as we find ourselves therein,
form given to what was vague, what slumbered stirred to life.
Alice James
#3. 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
#4. Oh, I suppose my wife and I will open a bottle of champagne with another couple.
Paul Scofield
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. To have a group of cloistered clinicians away completely from the broad current of professional life would be bad for teacher and worse for student. The primary work of a professor of medicine in a medical school is in the wards, teaching his pupils how to deal with patients and their diseases.
William Osler
#10. 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
#11. I'd rather be a hopeless romantic than a skeptic, because while the hopeless romantic may get burned many times, the skeptic will never really experience love.
Kealohilani
#12. The same is true of Love, and the instinctive desire to please those whom we love. The teacher who succeeds in getting herself loved by the pupils will obtain results which one of a more forbidding temperament finds it impossible to secure.
William James
#13. If you gotta tell them who you are, you ain't nobody.
Joe Louis
#14. 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
#15. Of course there are teachers who can teach a subject, in a set order, using predetermined phrases, but there aren't many who can adjust their teaching to the abilities and tendencies of their pupils and explain things in their own individual way. Maybe hardly any at all.
Haruki Murakami
#16. 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
#17. I am sure that one secret of a successful teacher is that he has formulated quite clearly in his mind what the pupil has got to know in precise fashion. He will then cease from half-hearted attempts to worry his pupils with memorizing a lot of irrelevant stuff of inferior importance.
Alfred North Whitehead
#18. The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.
Amos Bronson Alcott
#20. The badge of honesty is simplicity.
Novalis
#21. Did you ever notice if you promise the possible, people won't believe you?
Cameron Jace
#23. 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
#24. My objective in teaching my pupils is that they should be fitted for any kind of art.
Howard Pyle
#25. When I heard Elvis Presley, then I knew I had to do music. Music is my god, and is the only love that has never left me. It has always been there and is my best friend.
Ville Valo
#26. I think it likely that some of my pupils will reach unusual distinction.
Howard Pyle
#27. I met a bipolar bear. He laughed, cried, then wanted a threesome.
Bo Burnham
#28. Select such subjects that your pupils cannot walk out without seeing them. Train your pupils to be observers, and have them provided with the specimens about which you speak. If you can find nothing better, take a house-fly or a cricket, and let each one hold a specimen and examine it as you talk.
Louis Agassiz
#29. I guess that's just how people are. We take for granted that we'll always have the chance to tell someone what they mean to us. We take for granted that nothing is going to happen to them, and so we all walk around not realizing how much we're loved. How much we're valued.
Debra Dockter
#30. Of course it's all-consuming, but love- real love- doesn't destroy or smother. It's the very opposite of a weakness. Love strengthens. It liberates. It molds itself to every fiber of your being and fortifies you where where you may be broken.
Kerrigan Byrne
#31. 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
#32. History is an excellent teacher with few pupils.
Will Durant
#33. How much longer are you going to be a pupil? From now on do some teaching as well.
Seneca The Younger
#34. He found, moreover, that the younger and more ignorant his pupils were, the more pleasure he took in teaching.
Hermann Hesse
#35. Every spring he vowed to quit teaching school, and every summer he missed his pupils and searched for them on the streets.
Annie Dillard
#36. Pupils may learn many things when a teacher is not in fact teaching.
Paul Q. Hirst
#37. I can walk down the street all day and people look at me, but they don't talk to me or stop me.
Scott Speedman
#38. I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
Albert Einstein
#39. Every scene should be able to answer three questions: Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don't get it? Why now?
David Mamet
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