Pupil Quotes (4)
[In reply to a question about how he got his expertise:]
By studying the masters and not their pupils.
By studying the masters and not their pupils.
In Howard Whitley Eves, Mathematical Circles Squared (1972).
Originally a pupil of Liebig, I became a pupil of Dumas, Gerhardt and Williamson: I no longer belonged to any school.
J. R. Partington, A History of Chemistry (1970), Vol. 4, 533.
See also: | Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas (7) | Charles Gerhardt (3) | Justus von Liebig (33) | School (16) | Student (16) | Alexander William Williamson (2)
Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.
'Aphorisms', in The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, trans. E. MacCurdy (1938 ), Vol. 1, 98.
The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil to learn is hammering on cold iron.
Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann (1872), 225.
