Pupils Quotations

As to the 'St. Michael,' the subject is very fine, but very difficult, so I doubt that I shall find easily amongst my pupils one capable of carrying it out satisfactorily even after my own drawing. In any case, it will be necessary for me to touch it up carefully with my own hand.

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

All my pupils are the creme de la creme. Give me a girl of an impressionable age, and she is mine for life.

While my father sang, Pedroza stared at me. By that time my eye pupils were staring at him, too, like a terrier that's got hold of a fox.

We do recognise the need to move towards the publication of information showing the progress made by pupils from one stage of their education to another.

The stories my pupils told me were astonishing. One told how he had witnessed his cousin being shot in the back five times; another how his parents had died of AIDS. Another said that he'd probably been to more funerals than parties in his young life. For me - someone who had had an idyllic, happy childhood - this was staggering.

When we deal with death, the pupils will always be fixed and dilated, which indicates that there is no longer brain activity or response.

The printed word is no longer as in demand as when I was of the age of pupils or even at the age of the teachers teaching them.

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

Work has been undertaken to come up with a revised plan and a new application for an all-weather pitch to serve the pupils of Bell Baxter and to provide some community use. The meeting will give everyone the chance to see the plans and share their views.

The pupil will eclipse his tutor, I warrant.

Some councils have only two or three pupils who need this help. That is not a big enough group to build up real expertise in dealing with them. They will look at using specialists like Spark of Genius.

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.

One school invited me down, as two pupils had come out, and the headmaster didn't know what to do about it. I said, 'How many students here are gay?' and he said, 'Just these two.' Clearly not. 'How many gay members of staff have you got?' He had no idea. And this was a concerned man.

I am putting old heads on your young shoulders...all my pupils are the creme de la creme.

The purpose of fear, clearly, is to help you get away - which it does. If your heart rate increases, there is more blood pumping so you can use that blood to fuel your muscles to run away. Oxygen is sent to the lungs so you can run fast. Pupils dilating help you see in the dark. All of that prepares your body to fight or escape.

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

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

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.

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

A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils.

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

We have worked with Tom McGhee before and believe this will be a good option for a very limited number of pupils each year. The cost is nothing compared with the value of having children reintegrated into a mainstream school.

Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well.

Zen is not interested in high-flown statements; it wants its pupil to bite his apple and not discuss it.

I was her bestist pupil in the Beckman School for retarted adults and I tryed the hardist becus I reely wantd to lern I wantid it more even then pepul who are smarter even then me.

Too many pupils at schools in the U.K. want to have careers as footballers or TV hosts, or models, because that's what they're constantly exposed to as the heroes of our time.

We are estimating that at least 17,000 pupils were killed in schools, that's the one number that we have some estimate on.

We are very pleased with the results. Their success was down to a lot of hard work by pupils and staff. They have done very well.

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

Schools already invest in computers for pupils and have more IT equipment than ever before. But children need access to computers both at school and at home. That's whey we need to see an increase in portable technologies that can be used beyond the classroom and at school.

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

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.

This has been an ongoing problem in our province. What happens is that at the beginning of every year, we get the numbers of pupils in schools from the principals. We then verify them ourselves.

It's a very ancient saying, But a true and honest thought, That if you become a teacher, By your pupils you'll be taught

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.

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.

In too many cases, appeals panels are erratic and their judgements are based wholly on the circumstances of the individual child, without giving enough thought to other pupils and teachers in the school,

I get an awful lot of people coming up and saying they went to school with me. There must have been 80,000 pupils at that school!

His brain is active, his pupils are reactive, ... We are not keeping people alive that aren't alive and we certainly wouldn't do that.

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

I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.

A pupil is a great resource.

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.

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.

To-day is the pupil of yesterday

I am a pupil of Pissarro.

The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.

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

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. (Le temps est un grand maître, dit-on; le malheur est qu'il soit un maître inhumain qui tue ses élèves.)

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

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

The teacher does best, not when he explains, but when he impels his pupils to seek themselves the explanation.

Nationally, overwhelmingly non-white schools receive $1,000 less per pupil than overwhelmingly white schools.

What the teachers digest, the pupils eat.

When feminists become saints, we will become their pupils.

Wit is the refractory pupil of judgment.

Many a bad habit is developed through overindulgence, and many a good one by chastisement; therefore, beat your son as well as your pupil; never indulge them.

The most important method of education always has consisted of that in which the pupil was urged to actual performance.

(Academics) commit their pupils to the theatre of the world, with just taste enough of learning to be alienated from industrial pursuits, and not enough to do service in the ranks of science

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

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

I abhor the supreme folly of those who blame the disciples of nature in defiance of those masters who were themselves her pupils

I must remain a child and pupil of the Catechism, and am glad so to remain.

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