the paid educator

“Even the greatest parental love is, as an educational factor, more selfish than the slightest love of the paid educator. . . . Whereas parental love is animal, mindless and incapable of distinguishing between the child and the self, the teacher has concern for the child, and educationally that is incomparably more, even when no love is involved.”

—Franz Kafka, quoted in K: A Biography of Kafka, by Ronald Hayman, 1981.