Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and t…

Vladimir Nabokov
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Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know. ✨ Vladimir Nabokov (2011). Pnin, p.161, Vintage
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