![]() ![]() Once dead, and enveloped by the comfortable nimbus of remoteness, they are paraded by the schoolmasters before other generations of students as showpieces and noble examples. As their personalities develop, they create their art in spite of school. We have the consolation that among true geniuses the wounds almost always heal. ![]() The question of who suffers more acutely at the other's hands - the teacher at the boy's, or vice versa - who is more of a tyrant, more of a tormentor, and who profanes parts of the other's soul, student or teacher, is something you cannot examine without remembering your own youth in anger and shame. His task is not to produce extravagant intellects but good Latinists, arithmeticians and sober decent folk. A schoolmaster will prefer to have a couple of dumbheads in his class than a single genius, and if you regard it objectively, he is of course right. As far as teachers are concerned, they define young geniuses as those who are bad, disrespectful, smoke at fourteen, fall in love at fifteen, can be found at sixteen hanging out in bars, read forbidden books, write scandalous essays, occasionally stare down a teacher in class, are marked in the attendance book as rebels, and are budding candidates for room-arrest. Anyone with a touch of genius seems to his teachers a freak from the very first. ![]() A certain streak of genius makes an ominous impression on them, for there exists a deep gulf between genius and the teaching profession. “Teachers dread nothing so much as unusual characteristics in precocious boys during the initial stages of their adolescence. ![]()
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