
: When you started teaching, didn't you want to give them a real education to help overcome... the poverty of their backgrounds?

: Oh yes, of course. But one soon learns that teaching is crowd control. We're a branch of the social services.

: Console yourself with the gems. That's when it's satisfying. Then you can make a real difference.

: The rest is just cattle-prod and pray.
Al die willen te kaap'ren varen, moeten mannen met baarden zijn.
Hoogachtend,
Erik.