Devotees

The goddess Folly with some apposite observations on her devoted followers: Let's look at those who have some reputation for wisdom amongst mortals and seek the golden bough, as the saying goes. Among them the schoolmasters hold first place. They would surely be the most unfortunate and wretched class of men and the one most hateful to the gods if I didn't mitigate the hardships of their miserable profession by a pleasant kind of madness.

Not much has changed over the centuries, eh?