On Teaching
"For ancient philosophy, at least beginning from the sophists and Socrates, intended, in the first instance to form people and to transform souls.
That is why, in Antiquity philosophical teaching is given above all in oral form, because only the living word, in dialogues, in conversations pursued
for a long time, can accomplish such an action. The written work, considerable as it is, is therefore most of the time, only an echo or a complement
of this oral teaching.” (Pierre Hadot)
"The sadness of generations without ‘teachers.’ Our teachers are not just public professors, though we badly need professors. Our teachers,
once we reach adulthood, are those who bring us something radical and new, who know how to invent an artistic or literary technique,
finding those ways of thinking that correspond to our modernity, that is, our difficulties as well as our vague enthusiasms.” (Gilles Deleuze)