Pupils may learn many things when a teacher is not in fact teaching.
For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.
The result desired by the state is a wholly different one from that desired by parents, guardians, and pupils.
True undoubting is the teacher's part, continual undoubting the part of the pupil.
My objective in teaching my pupils is that they should be fitted for any kind of art.
If we are any good we must always be working towards the moment at which our Pupils are fit to become our Critics & Rivals
Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting.
I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, 'Verify your quotations.
How much longer are you going to be a pupil? From now on do some teaching as well.
The madness of the eyes is the lure of the abyss. Sirens lurk in the dark depths of the pupils as they lurk at the bottom of the sea, that I know for sure - but I have never encountered them, and I am searching still for the profound and plaintive gazes in whose depths I might be able, like Hamlet redeemed, to drown the Ophelia of my desire.
