There are many teachers in schools and colleges who seem duller than the dullest of their pupils;they go through the motions of teaching, but they are as impersonal as a telephone.

• 有许多中学大学里的老师看其来一个比一个迟钝，虽然他们依旧用同样的姿态教学，但是他们只不过向公用的电话。