Quotation from: The Little Lady of the Big House

Written by: Jack London

Dick waited patiently till he was through. Then Dick began, and
concluded.

"I'm not a fool, Professor Carey. High school and academy students are
children. They don't know the world. They don't know what they want,
or why they want what is ladled out to them. I know the world. I know
what I want and why I want it. They do physics for an hour, twice a
week, for two terms, which, with two vacations, occupy one year. You
are the top teacher on the Pacific Coast in physics. The college year
is just ending. In the first week of your vacation, giving every
minute of your time to me, I can get the year's physics. What is that
week worth to you?"