In Buddhism, a student must talk to their teachers.
In five ways, young householder, a pupil should minister to a teacher
as the South:
(i) by rising from the seat in salutation, (ii) by attending on him,
(iii) by eagerness to learn, (iv) by personal service, (v) by
respectful attention while receiving instructions
DN 31
In Buddhism, the practice of Right Speech is taught rather than Non-Speech:
If, while he is dwelling by means of this dwelling, his mind inclines
to speaking, he resolves that 'I will not engage in talk that is base,
vulgar, common, ignoble, unbeneficial, that does not lead to
disenchantment, dispassion, cessation, calm, direct knowledge,
self-awakening or Nibbana โ i.e., talk about kings, robbers, &
ministers of state; armies, alarms, & battles; food & drink; clothing,
furniture, garlands, & scents; relatives; vehicles; villages, towns,
cities, the countryside; women & heroes; the gossip of the street &
the well; tales of the dead; tales of diversity, the creation of the
world & of the sea; talk of whether things exist or not.' In this way
he is alert there.
But,' [he resolves,] 'I will engage in talk that is scrupulous,
conducive to release of awareness, and leads exclusively to
disenchantment, dispassion, cessation, calm, direct knowledge,
self-awakening & Nibbana โ i.e., talk on modesty, contentment,
seclusion, non-entanglement, arousing persistence, virtue,
concentration, discernment, release, and the knowledge & vision of
release.' In this way he is alert there.
But there is this (mental) dwelling discovered by the Tathagata where,
not attending to any themes, he enters & remains in internal
emptiness. If, while he is dwelling there by means of this dwelling,
he is visited by monks, nuns, lay men, lay women, kings, royal
ministers, sectarians & their disciples, then โ with his mind bent on
seclusion, tending toward seclusion, inclined toward seclusion, aiming
at seclusion, relishing renunciation, having destroyed those qualities
that are the basis for mental fermentation โ he converses with them
only as much as is necessary for them to take their leave.
MN 122