“Why have I been remunerated, given money … to read with others, to study Phaedrus or The Tempest? … My doctoral seminar in Geneva ran, more or less unbroken, for a quarter of a century. Those Thursday mornings were as near as an ordinary, secular spirit can come to Pentecost. By what oversight or vulgarization should I have been paid to become what I am? When … it might have been altogether more appropriate for me to pay those who invited me to teach?”
– George Steiner, Lessons of the Masters (Cambridge, Mass., 2003), p. 19
D. L. Dusenbury 