Pupil Quotes (6)
[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).
I hope you enjoy the absence of pupils ... the total oblivion of them for definite intervals is a necessary condition for doing them justice at the proper time. Letter to Lewis Campbell (21 Apr 1862).
In P. M. Harman (ed.), The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell (1990), Vol. 1, 712.
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 (18) | Student (18) | 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.
What is a good definition? For the philosopher or the scientist, it is a definition which applies to all the objects to be defined, and applies only to them; it is that which satisfies the rules of logic. But in education it is not that; it is one that can be understood by the pupils.
Science and Method (1914, 2003), 117.
See also: | Application (16) | Definition (32) | Education (124) | Logic (69) | Philosopher (35) | Rule (18) | Satisfy (4) | Scientist (78) | Understanding (99)
