schoolmaster quotes

The poet is the unsatisfied child who dares to ask the difficult question which arises from the schoolmaster's answer to his simple question, and then the still more difficult question which arises from that.

- Robert von Ranke Graves
Recalled on his death,7 Dec1985.

   I expect you'll be becoming a schoolmaster, sir. That's what most of the gentlemen does, sir, that gets sent down for indecent behaviour.

- Evelyn Arthur StJohn Waugh
  Decline and Fall, Prelude.