The cardinal virtue of a teacher [is] to protect the pupil from his own influence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1973). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1847-1848”, p.471, Harvard University Press
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The cardinal virtue of a teacher [is] to protect the pupil from his own influence.