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pupils
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pupils
Plural noun of pupil.
The school had over a thousand pupils during this term time.
Submitted by MaryC on April 13, 2016
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Rank popularity for the word 'pupils' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1222
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Rank popularity for the word 'pupils' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2835
Anagrams for pupils »
pi-plus, slip up, slip-up, slipup, suppli
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of pupils in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of pupils in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
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The teacher should not assume that he/she is always correct, or try to make the worst cases appear reasonable before his pupils. On the other hand, the teacher should accept the corrections as much as they love to do it to others.
I have 45 pupils, but these days I would be lucky to have half the class, cases of children fainting in class because of hunger are very common here. It is very traumatizing.
They’ll do things like check pupils, how well they seem to see with each eye, do an external exam and look for a red reflux in the retina… that (red eye) when people take pictures, if you don’t see that red spot in the center of the eye, there could be something in the eye like a cataract or other things obscuring that.
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.
I ask my pupils why they did not come to school and they reply that it is because there is no food at home, the situation is grim.
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