" By comparison with them, among today’s schoolteachers there are too many plain “salary-man” drudges. Or perhaps even more than salary men, there are too many bureaucrat types among those who become teachers. The kind of education these people dispense isn’t worth a damn. There’s absolutely nothing of interest in it. So it’s no wonder that students today prefer to spend their time reading comic books. "

― Akira Kurosawa , Something Like an Autobiography