He is, I suspect, more often than not by nature and instinctively afraid of the insecure uproar of things. Visit him in college and you will see that he does not so much live there as lurk. The vanity of teaching often tempteth a man to forget he is a blockhead. He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
Education is the process of casting false pearls before real swine.
I respect no study and deem no study good, which results in money- making. Epistolae ad Lucilium . Superfluity of lecturing causes ischial bursitis. Boswell's Life . I find that the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty.