Top Pupil Quotes
To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.
Muriel Spark
Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.
Dante Alighieri
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
Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?
Diogenes of Sinope
Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
Arthur Koestler
Anne Sullivan 
Paul Cezanne 
Eugen Herrigel 
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. 
William Godwin 
Dante Alighieri 
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To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.
Muriel Spark 
66% of people like this quote
Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.
Dante Alighieri
65% of people like this quote
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
62% of people like this quote
Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?
Diogenes of Sinope
60% of people like this quote
Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
Arthur Koestler
57% of people like this quote
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
56% of people like this quote
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
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The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
Horace Mann
53% of people like this quote
All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.
Emma Goldman
52% of people like this quote
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