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He looked around the classroom objectively, feeling better now that he proposed to leave it, but marveling afresh that so many grown-up, self-supporting people should be eager to spend time and money studying not a subject in itself but methods to conceal their ignorance of it.
- Dawn Powell, The Locusts Have No King, (p. 316 in Novels 1944-1962)
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