Pupils Quotes

The person who`s had the most impact on acting since Marlon Brando, the only person who`s really changed acting, is Julia Roberts. I call it the Julia Roberts School of Acting. It`s an excess of competence. She`s got all these imitators, and they just basically get on screen and smile. The idea is, smile and say your line. And Julia Roberts herself - well, that`s one thing. But she has a ton of pupils who get on screen and basically just smile. And their smile is so winning, and so wonderful, that you say, `I like that person`. And it drives me crazy, because the point of performance is not to be liked. My grandfather`s a politician, and he can never understand. He says, `You`ve got to stop playing these people no one would ever like!` But my job is not to be liked. It`s to make interesting things. I want to actually do something, rather than just be me on screen. Julia Roberts does something with it, but all her imitators. It`s like the imitators of Raymond Carver, that generation of writers copying him, I guess: it looks simple to them and they copy it, but they`re missing the thing that made it special.

Passive acceptance of the teacher`s wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position.

If you become a teacher, by your pupils you`ll be taught.

I went from this school where everybody was in the same building, to Hollywood High, a school which had about 2,000 pupils. I felt quite immature.

It`s weird. I never hid adolescence. I kind of bypassed it, and I`m a bit angry that I didn`t go through all the angst. I had the acne but no angst. From the age of about five to twelve I was very bad, a hideous little terror who beat people up. I was a member of a Rough Gang - we went around and terrorised all the pupils in school. I was this really nasty kid, and then overnight I turned into the man I am now.

From the age of about five to twelve I was very bad, a hideous little terror who beat people up. I was a member of the Rough Gang - we went around and terrorized all the pupils in school.

Joe was a lovely well-mannered boy and he`s going to be greatly missed by all his teachers, his friends and his fellow pupils at St Gabriel`s High School.

We are very pleased with the results. Their success was down to a lot of hard work by pupils and staff. They have done very well.

It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious to draw the right lessons from her teaching.

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.

We do recognise the need to move towards the publication of information showing the progress made by pupils from one stage of their education to another.

Some councils have only two or three pupils who need this help. That is not a big enough group to build up real expertise in dealing with them. They will look at using specialists like Spark of Genius.

People from the area have told me that they are pleased to see the pupils wearing uniform and it makes them proud to come from Niddrie.

This is an excellent example of creative innovation which benefits everyone in education, the technicians, the teachers and the pupils.

A considerable breakdown in my health has scared me from the anxieties, responsibilities and excitement of my profession; whether temporarily or permanently cannot yet be determined but, whatever may be the issue, be assured that nothing was better calculated to soothe me than the kind interest manifested by the pupils of Guy`s Hospital during the many trying years devoted to that institution.