Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know. (Vladimir Nabokov)

Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.

Vladimir Nabokov

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