Retaliatory Quote-mongering

Take that, T.R.E.:

True teaching can be a terribly dangerous enterprise. The living Master takes into his hands that inmost of his students, the fragile and incendiary matter of their possibilities. He lays hands on what we conceive of as the soul and roots of being, a seizure of which erotic seduction is the lesser, though metaphoric, version. —George Steiner, Lessons of the Masters