Jean-Paul Sartre
Philosopher, Writer
"I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become."
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Pupils
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher, Writer
"One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil."
Martin Luther
Theologian
"I must remain a child and pupil of the Catechism, and am glad so to remain."
Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher"
C. S. Lewis
Writer, Scholar
"It is because they have no Oyarsa,' said one of the pupils. It is because everyone of them wants to be a little Oyarsa himself,' said Augray."
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"Be pupils of the masses as well as their teachers."
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"The most important method of education always has consisted of that in which the pupil was urged to actual performance."
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"What the teachers digest, the pupils eat."
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"I abhor the supreme folly of those who blame the disciples of nature in defiance of those masters who were themselves her pupils"
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"How much longer are you going to be a pupil? From now on do some teaching as well."
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"Don't you realize," Merlin said to his pupil, "that the history of the universe has brought us here to this second?"
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"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."
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"Naturally, it is with some temerity that the pupil speaks before the master, because you know more about the Common Market than anybody."
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"True undoubting is the teacher's part, continual undoubting the part of the pupil."
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