People Quote by Mary Beard

To be a teacher does not mean simply to affirm that such a thing is so, or to deliver a lecture, etc.

— Soren Kierkegaard

There are certain teachers who shouldn't be teachers.

— Tenzin Palmo

I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strangely, I am ungrateful to these teachers.

— Kahlil Gibran

'A Talk to Teachers' showed me that a teacher's work should reject the false pretense of being apolitical and, instead, confront the problems that…

— Clint Smith

A big part of teaching is being emphatic. Maybe I'm right or wrong, but part of my approach was that when I said something,…

— Bobby Knight

Teachers at all levels encourage the idea that you have to talk about things in order to understand them, because they wouldn't have jobs,…

— Denise Levertov

Our universities are so determined to impose tolerance that they'll expel you for saying what you think and never notice the irony

— John Perry Barlow

Anytime students shout down a speaker who says something different, this is not good.

— Charles Koch

I found early on in teaching, if you're too blunt an instrument, the students discredit you and think you're just being mean. They're not…

— Tim Gunn

A teacher is a person who never says anything once.

— Howard Nemerov

Being a teacher is not what I do, it's who I am.

— Jill Biden

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers

— Anonymous