Pupil Quotes

I didn`t like my character. He didn`t seem very deep. He just seemed a representative of evil. - On Apt Pupil (1998)

About the 2008 death of Brad Renfro: "I first caught sight of Brad Renfro when he was kicking a football around with Bryan Singer on the half-built set of Apt Pupil in Hollywood. He was a kid having fun and that`s how I shall always remember him. But he was more than that. He was a proper actor and when we worked together he was determined to be accepted as such. On set, he was blusteringly confident although it was obvious he would have benefited from training as an actor. Yet, as Todd, the disturbed teenager in Apt Pupil, he tapped into an inner demonic world and carried the film on his young shoulders. He longed to belong in the alien world which perhaps in the end overwhelmed him. He was only 25 and it is dreadful we shan`t see all that he might have achieved."

Good teachers make the best of a pupil`s means; great teachers foresee a pupil`s ends.

That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil`s means; great teachers foresee a pupil`s ends.

My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil`s mind, and behold, all things are changed!

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.

To-day is the pupil of yesterday.

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

I was for two years a pupil at the Model School in Fort street which was then conducted upon the Irish national system, and if any special religious instruction was given in connection with that system, I do not recollect it.

A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions.

I am a pupil of Pissarro.

As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.

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

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil`s soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.