Friday, 8 January 2016

J.M. Coetzee- Disgrace

He continues to teach because it provides him with a livelihood; also because it teaches him humility, brings it home to him who he is in the world. The irony does not escape him: that the one who comes to teach learns the keenest of lessons, while those who come to learn learn nothing. It's a feature of his profession on which he does not remark to Soraya. He doubts there is an irony to match it in hers.

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