Lecturer Quote by Winifred Holtby

A lecturer often makes you feel dumb at one end and numb at the other.

— Evan Esar

I have always had the greatest respect for students. There is nothing I hate more than condescension—the attitude that they are inferior to you.…

— Mark Van Doren

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

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

“If someone teaches only what his superior Man predetermines and orders him to teach, without himself being absolutely convinced of the Meaningfulness and Usefulness…

— Sino Melo

Most people tire of a lecture in ten minutes; clever people can do it in five. Sensible people never go to lectures at all.…

— Stephen Leacock

I pretty much preach, teach and nag.

— Laura Schlessinger

Sometimes we don't want to be lectured; we prefer to be taken on a journey.

— David Farr

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

The thing about being a university teacher is that you're fairly tolerant about young people saying things they shouldn't have said.

— Mary Beard

My students are noticed by the people I respect from the quality of their work.

— Louise Wilson