Teacher Pupil Quotes

#1. I've always been my own teacher. And I must confess I've been my favorite pupil a well.

Anne Rice

#2. Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

Diogenes

#3. I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.

Gertrude Stein

#4. The greater the teacher, the greater the pupil may become.

Theodore M. Burton

#5. One repays a teacher badly if one remains only a pupil. - FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

Robert Greene

#6. Education at a deep level means to 'lead out' what is trying to be born from within. The job of a true teacher is to help awaken the inner pupil that has its own way of being and unique way of perceiving
the world.

Michael Meade

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. When the pupil is ready, the teacher will appear. I was your teacher.

Stephen King

#10. Do not trust a teacher that is unwilling to learn.

T.F. Hodge

#11. So long as public schools are treated as places that exist to provide guaranteed jobs to members of the teachers' unions, do not be surprised to see American students continuing to score lower on international tests than students in countries that spend a lot less per pupil than we do.

Thomas Sowell

#12. Do you think people can change?" I ask Rick
"Yes." he answers plainly. "There are those who can."
That grabs my attention. "So you believe it's possible?"
"Miss Stella."He gives me his teacher-to-pupil stare. "Its boils down to choice.

Katie McGarry

#13. 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

#14. All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.

Abraham Maslow

#15. 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

#16. (I was) my own teacher and pupil, and thanks to the efforts of both, they were not discontented with each other.

Andres Segovia

#17. Both pupil and teacher never outgrow learning.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#18. I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher

Mahatma Gandhi

#19. Most teachers waste their time by asking question which are intended to discover what a pupil does not know whereas the true art of questioning has for its purpose to discover what pupils knows or is capable of knowing.

Albert Einstein

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. TEACHER seeks pupil. Must have an earnest desire to save the world. Apply in person.

Daniel Quinn

#23. One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. Learning is a process of mutual discovery for teacher and pupil. Keep an open mind to their unexpected responses.

Bel Kaufman

#27. Reason must approach nature in order to be taught by it. It must not, however, do so in the character of a pupil who listens to everything that the teacher chooses to say, but of an appointed judge who compels the witness to answer questions which he has himself formulated.

Immanuel Kant

#28. Man is a pupil, pain is his teacher.

Alfred De Musset

#29. True undoubting is the teacher's part, continual undoubting the part of the pupil.

Franz Kafka

#30. The teacher usually learns more than the pupil. Isn't that true?" "It would be hard to learn much less than my pupils," came a low growl from somewhere on the table, "without undergoing a prefrontal lobotomy.

Douglas Adams

#31. A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

Horace Mann

#32. To do is hard, but to teach is still harder. Do not teach only to teach. Teach to improve the pupil. To be a teacher requires tremendous, vigorous discipline on oneself. We are teachers because somebody demands it from us. But the teacher should first rub his own self, and teach afterwards

B.K.S. Iyengar

#33. 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

#34. A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions.

Martin H. Fischer

#35. The teacher's prime concern should be to ingrain into the pupil that assortment of habits that shall be most useful to him throughout life. Education is for behavior, and habits are the stuff of which behavior consists.

William James

#36. One never knows be it days, weeks or years, when the pupil is ready, the teacher appears.

Robert Fisher

#37. The cardinal virtue of a teacher [is] to protect the pupil from his own influence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#38. You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#39. Too rarely is the individual teacher so free from the dictation of authoritative supervisor, textbook on methods, prescribed course of study, etc., that he can let his mind come to close quarters with the pupil's mind and the subject matter.

John Dewey

#40. 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

#41. As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every evil which may befall me; therefore, I have always found myself capable of being my own pupil, and ready to love my teacher.

Giacomo Casanova

#42. A teacher is frequently the only adult in the pupil's environment who treats him with respect.

Bel Kaufman

#43. Creative activity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

Arthur Koestler

#44. The teacher knows best what these helpful connections are and must help the pupil to make them.

William Henry Pyle

#45. I have become a pupil of the AA movement rather than the teacher.

Bill W.

#46. 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

#47. 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

#48. A teacher should, above all things, first induce a desire in the pupil for the acquisition he wishes to impart.

Horace Mann

#49. 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