But calm is precisely what is absent from love’s classroom. There is simply too much on the line. The ‘student’ isn’t merely a passing responsibility, he or she is a lifelong commitment. Failure will ruin existence. No wonder we may be prone to lose control and deliver cack-handed, hasty speeches which imply a lack of faith in the legitimacy or even the nobility of the act of imparting advice. And no wonder, too, if we end up achieving
