Discourse Quote by Virginia Woolf

“I should never be able to fulfill what is,I understand, the first duty of a lecturer-to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget…

— Virginia Woolf

The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities.

— Winston Churchill

LECTURER, n. One with his hand in your pocket, his tongue in your ear and his faith in your patience.

— Ambrose Bierce

You teacher, teach your pupils freedom in thought and deed, honesty in thought and deed, and tolerance in thought and deed.

— Ameen Rihani

My experience is that prose usually equals duty - last minute, overdue-deadline stuff or a panic lecture to be written.

— Seamus Heaney

My duty is that of a chronicler; and if I perform that conscientiously, the lessons which my observations suggest will need no pointing out.

— Bayard Taylor

Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as hard duty. Never regard study as duty…

— Albert Einstein

The first thing required of a teacher is that he be rightly disposed for his task.

— Maria Montessori

The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.

— Michael Faraday

If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.

— Leslie Stephen

There is a peculiar aesthetic pleasure in constructing the form of a syllabus, or a book of essays, or a course of lectures. Visions…

— Anonymous

Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn

— Albert Einstein