Fear Quote by Helen Zille

One shouldn't ever be conscious of the author as lecturer. When social or moral points are too heavily stressed, I always get uncomfortable.

— Orson Welles

“Hence anyone who is to listen intelligently to lectures about what is noble and just and, generally, about the subjects of political science must…

— Aristotle

“For anything that smacked of a classroom or of being lectured to—“professor” was one of his bad words, and he was proud of never…

— Michael Wolff

“......philosophical concepts nurtured in the stillness of a professor's study could destroy a civilization....but if professors can truly wield this fatal power, may it…

— Isaiah Berlin

“The way of even the most justifiable revolution is prepared by personal impulses disguised into creeds. The Professor's indignation found in itself a final…

— Joseph Conrad

“I don’t believe in classes where students criticize each other’s manuscripts. Such criticism is generally composed in equal parts of ignorance, flattery, and spite.…

— Flannery O'Connor

“The institutionalization of the radical ethos in the academy has brought with it not only an increasing politicization of the humanities, but also an…

— Roger Kimball

“Thousands of persons, many of whom never darkened the door of a college, have learned to read books that most of our college graduates…

— Stringfellow Barr

“Then one day the entire student body was summoned to a meeting, where we were to be addressed by Bernhard Rust, the grade-school teacher…

— Kathrine Kressmann Taylor

“Learning, in an age where it was the light to theocratic darkness, was to be feared and reviled because it threatened vested interests.”

— Darran Anderson

“[...] it is rare for a man who teaches to know his subject thoroughly; for if he studies it as he ought, he has…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Great lecturers seldom hesitate to use dramatic tricks to enshrine their precepts in the minds of their audiences, and at Yale perhaps Chauncey B.…

— Louis Auchincloss