Think of it--I! That definition should be revised to read, 'Teacher: one who, conveying certain information to others, reads in fifty faces unanswerable questions as to the riddle of existence.' 'School: a place where the presumably wise are convinced of their own folly.' Note well, my friend: I am a gray sister, in a gray serge suit that fits, with white cuffs and collar, and with chalk on my fingers.
Oh, it's not what I'm required to teach, but what I'm going to learn that worries me!" Lueders's shop was not far from Sylvia's school and Allen devised many excuses for waylaying her.

His machine being forbidden, he hung about until she appeared and trudged homeward with her.

Often he came in a glow from the cabinetmaker's and submitted for her judgment the questions that had been debated that day at the shop.

There was something sweet and wistful and charming in his boyishness; and she was surprised, as Harwood had been from the first, by the intelligence he evinced in political and social questions.

He demanded absolute answers to problems that were perplexing wise men all over the world.
"If I could answer that," she would say to him, "I should be entitled to a monument more enduring than brass.