But Nietzsche had always insisted that reading, like writing, should be an act of self-creation: "One repays a teacher badly if one always remains a pupil".
Fifty years ago the guru Krishnamurti specifically told his followers NOT to follow him echoing what Nietzsche wrote eighty years before him: "One repays a teacher badly if one always remains only a pupil...
Teachers are badly paid and there are not enough of them.
Special needs teachers are badly paid and looked down on, says Sightsavers' Uganda programme officer, Juliet Sentongo.
Among all the focus on teachers and badly behaving children, it was easy to overlook the fleeting but extraordinary kindness of Honour, a young Asian girl desperately trying to help a new pupil who spoke no English.
Cameron, who is wholly supportive of Gove's creation of a new generation of free schools, has been advised that the party risks losing significant support after relations between his departing education secretary and teachers became badly poisoned.
Nor do British teachers fare badly when compared with other nations; according to the report, the average primary salary is $44,000 and secondary $48,500 in England (£27,300 and £30,100), which (perhaps surprisingly) puts us ahead of the OECD average of $41,000 and $47,000 respectively.
"I hadn't thought about returning to the classroom, but when I heard they needed certified teachers that badly, I had to help," said Thompson, who won numerous awards during her career as an English, speech and drama teacher in Mississippi and Wisconsin.
Welcome to Lifetime Land, a quiet suburban street where the star quarterback is an H.I.V.-positive heroin addict, the girl next door has sex with him because of her slutty-divorced-mom issues, and the cute substitute teacher dresses badly and wears minimal makeup because — you guessed it!
