[Urianger lights up slightly more at that comment: he hasn't met many others here who come from an academic background.]

Indeed? Then surely it is a rare and commendable degree of attention to thy students' needs that thou dost demonstrate with such gestures.

If I may inquire, what manner of classes didst thou oversee? In truth, there was once a time I had considered taking up such a vocation for myself. [before he left home with his mentor and went interfering in other countries' politics. they definitely wouldn't let him teach anymore even if he went back.]