I cannot help but be reminded of one very useful piece of advice my (now former) Physics teacher recently dispensed to myself and classmates:
"In life you will soon discover, that money comes and money goes, but time... time only ever goes."
I have just (well almost) finished my high-school career once and for all. Only a couple of weeks of exams remain, and then I shall be free.
This Physics teacher has a lot in common with my old Latin teacher, who taught me Latin for the scholastic year of 1996. But of course there are also many large differences between them. I shall node about this particular Latin teacher at great lengh at some point in the future, as I have much to say...
I must admit that whether or not I realised it at the time, I am very glad to have had them both teach me. There are teachers who teach a subject intently and very strictly, and then there are teachers who teach life, and their subject on the side. Life teachers are definitely more useful in both the very short and very long term.