Robert Burns Quote

God help the teacher, if a man of sensibility and genius, when a booby father presents him with his booby son, and insists on lighting up the rays of science in a fellow's head whose skull is impervious and inaccessible by any other way than a positive fracture with a cudgel.

The works of Robert Burns; with an account of his life, and a criticism on his writings (ed. 1806)