Status Updates From Different Class Harris, Joanne

"We live in a world in which vocational teaching matters far more than the pursuit of wisdom, or the study of civilizations past. And yet where would our world be without Horace, or Pliny, or Ptolemy?"

"Dr. Devine's annoyance grew-along with his discomfort-as gnome after gnome popped its impudent head out from stock cupboard and locker room; from briefcase, bookshelves, and flowerbeds, sometimes wearing a House tie, sometimes bearing a label-Peripatetic Gnomad, Gnomic Utterance, or simply Human G-gnome."