He tutored himself in the ways of a wounded city, enlisting academics and community leaders as tutors.
Courbet virtually wrote the definition of the modern artist as a bohemian, narcissistic loner and political radical who shunned the academy, tutoring himself at the Louvre and living by the phrase "épater le bourgeois," or "shock the bourgeoisie".
Exchanging letters with Tom regularly for several years, I found I'd fallen down a marvelous rabbit hole, where my self-appointed tutor revealed himself as a figure akin to one of Lewis Carroll's perverse mentors to his Alice.
One friend, AN Wilson, who was once guilty of an inadvertent condescension to his former tutor, found himself brought up sharply by the then-lucid Iris, who told him, with a steely look from under her straight fringe, that he might care to remember that her husband was perhaps the 'greatest critic since Coleridge'.
PMH left college with an intense hatred for his tutor, distancing himself from art for years.
He's such a calm, experienced guy, with 39 races under his belt by 1998, that he takes it upon himself to tutor inexperienced jockeys.
In Paris, under the renewed guidance of his friend and tutor Rodríguez, he steeped himself in the writings of European rationalist thinkers such as John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, Georges-Louis Leclerc, count de Buffon, Jean le Rond d'Alembert, and Claude-Adrien Helvétius, as well as Voltaire, Montesquieu, and Rousseau.
But Bergstein's role diminished in recent weeks as Tutor sought to distance himself from his advisor's troubled financial history running small film companies.
As his biographer WK Hancock wrote: Smuts's time at Cambridge had been one of outstanding success; his tutor Professor FW Maitland, himself one of the most eminent legal minds of the time, described Smuts as the most brilliant Law student he had ever taught.
His father worked with the heavyweight Gerry Cooney, and the younger Winters was a professional fighter himself, tutored by Duva.
