“An evil-doer and a curious person, searching into things under the earth and above the heaven; and making the worse appear the better cause, and teaching all this to others.” Such were the charges against Socrates when he was condemned to death by his fellow Athenians. In Ancient Greece, it seems that teaching was a dangerous profession.
Not that Socrates ever called himself a teacher. In fact, he mocked those that did, like the Sophists, for charging pupils fees for access to their know...
