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.
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.
Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?
You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.
How much longer are you going to be a pupil? From now on do some teaching as well.
The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.
Wit,--the pupil of the soul's clear eye.
To George Gershwin, on refusinghim as a pupil: You would only lose the spontaneous quality of your melody, and end by writing bad Ravel.
Twentieth pupil of the centuries knows its stuff and bird-changed this century like Jesus climbs the sky.
A pupil is a great resource.
A genius is always a teacher, never a pupil; he is always self-made.
Let our pupil be taught that he does not belong to himself, but that he is public property. Let him be taught to love his family, but let him be taught at the same time that he must forsake and even forget them when the welfare of his country requires it.
To-day is the pupil of yesterday
There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is you, and you are he; then is a teaching; and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever lose the benefit.
The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.
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.
I feel rather like a rabbit that has taken a fox for its pupil.
I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil.
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
I am a pupil of Pissarro.
