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I say, then, that the personal influence of the teacher is able in
some sort to dispense with an academical system, but that system
cannot in any way dispense with personal influence. With influence
there is life, without it there is none; if influence is deprived of
its due position, it will not by those means be got rid of, it will
only break out irregularly, dangerously. An academical system
without the personal influence of teachers upon pupils is an Arctic
winter; it will create an ice-bound, petrified, cast-iron
university, and nothing else.
--Newman, _Idea of a University_.
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