What I want to fix your attention on is the vast overall movement towards the discrediting, and finally the elimination, of every kind of human excellence -- moral, cultural, social or intellectual. And is it not pretty to notice how 'democracy' (in the incantatory sense) is now doing for us the work that was once done by the most ancient dictatorships, and by the same methods The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic.' Children who are fit to proceed may be artificially kept back, because the others would get a trauma by being left behind. The bright pupil thus remains democratically fettered to his own age group throughout his school career, and a boy who would be capable of tackling Aeschylus or Dante sits listening to his coeval's attempts to spell out A CAT SAT ON A MAT. We may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when 'I'm as good as you' has fully had its way. All incentives to learn and all penalties for not learning will vanish. The few who might want to learn will be prevented who are they to overtop their fellows And anyway, the teachers -- or should I say nurses -- will be far too busy reassuring the dunces and patting them on the back to waste any time on real teaching. We shall no longer have to plan and toil to spread imperturbable conceit and incurable ignorance among men.
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My one pupil has begun his work with me, and I will give you a description how the lecture is conducted. It is the most important point, you k...
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A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron.
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Today is yesterday's pupil.
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Reach me down my Tycho Brahe, I would know him when we meet, When I share my later science, sitting humbly at his feet; He may know the law of all things, yet be ignorant of how We are working to completion, working on from then to now. Pray remember that I leave you all my theory complete, Lacking only certain data for your adding, as is meet, And remember men will scorn it, 'tis original and true, And the obliquy of newness may fall bitterly on you. But, my pupil, as my pupil you have learned the worth of scorn, You have laughed with me at pity, we have joyed to be forlorn, What for us are all distractions of men's fellowship and smiles; What for us the Goddess Pleasure with her meretricious smiles. You may tell that German College that their honor comes too late, But they must not waste repentance on the grizzly savant's fate. Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
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The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.
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The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.
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All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.
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I am too old to fawn upon a nurse, Too far in years to be a pupil now.
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Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it. To the great poet, there is only one method of music -- his own. To the great painter, there is only one manner of painting -- that which he himself employs. The aesthetic critic, and the aesthetic critic alone, can appreciate all forms and all modes. It is to him that Art makes her appeal.
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You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.
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The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.
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The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract
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The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it will contract.
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But in a hundred high schools and colleges, this warfare against common-sense still goes on. Four, or six, or ten years, the pupil is parsing ...
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The highest function of the teacher consists not so much in imparting knowledge as in stimulating the pupil in its love and pursuit.
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I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.
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The secret of education is respecting the pupil
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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 y...
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He who undertakes to be his own teacher has a fool for a pupil.
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Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.
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One repays a teacher badly if one only remains a pupil.
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To-day is the pupil of yesterday.
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