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The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.

Amos Bronson Alcott

I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

Albert Einstein

That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.

Maria Callas

It can be quite hard for teachers to understand what pupils are saying sometimes.

Sue Fox

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

By staring at light bulbs during games. The light contracted his pupils, making his reactions harder to read.

Claude Shannon

For some reason, everyone is mentioning the less pleasant things. The fact... that his pupils are responding is a good sign. The fact is that the cranial pressure is normal, is a very good sign.

Shmuel Shapira

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

The idea that we should somehow protect pupils from content is unbelievably stupid.

David Lambert

We must make sure we protect pupils in the future so they don't come into contact with him.

Loyiso Pulumani

It's safe to assume that pupils these days are going to go on to jobs where they're going to be working in an international dimension, and that's reflected in the way we organize things here at Harrow and indeed in the pupils that come here.

Barnaby Lenon

Their were 25 pupils and only three of them has any meat in the last month. Very occasionally an egg, a little bit of vegetable and that's it.

Gerald Bourke

She really got me to understand perspectives on portraits -- the way your eyes line up with your ears and your pupils line up with the corners of your lips. Your finger is the same length as your nose. Your forearm is the same length as your feet.

Marvin Cox

He's a teacher, and you have to show your pupils that you care. He'll be a great teacher because of his experience.

Steve Orsini

I have also agreed to join the first Mandarin Chinese class... I think it is the best way for me to show the pupils how important I regard this new addition to our core curricula.

Richard Cairns

PERIPATETIC, adj. Walking about. Relating to the philosophy of Aristotle, who, while expounding it, moved from place to place in order to avoid his pupil's objections. A needless precaution -- they knew no more of the matter than he.

Ambrose Bierce

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

The pupils have been carrying out research in the Archive and Record office. It fits in with their A-level studies because half the paper is about looking at documents.

Robin Powell

It's like being the only French-speaking child in an all-English class and wanting to speak to the other pupils. We need the grammar-book and the vocabulary.

Joachim Jakobs

His pupils were dilated. I'll never forget that look in his eyes.

Margarita Chaves

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.'

Sir Winston Churchill

Pupils will continue to eat unhealthy packed lunches and visit the local chip shop.

John Dunford

The state's labor force will depend increasingly on Latinos. The low college entry and completion rate of these pupils is really a concern.

Michael Kirst

People from the area have told me that they are pleased to see the pupils wearing uniform and it makes them proud to come from Niddrie.

Ewan Aitken

Joe was a lovely well-mannered boy and he's going to be greatly missed by all his teachers, his friends and his fellow pupils at St Gabriel's High School.

Eddie Robinson

The measures we made for our 1.16 million pupils is to show our determination of relieving the burden on the children.

Zhang Jianguo