My final principle is that I am willing to do a lot more work in order to give the students a chance to learn. As my colleague Jonathan Malesic put it in The Hedgehog Review: “I will sacrifice some length of my days to add depth to another person’s experience of the rest of theirs. Many did this for me. The work is slow. Its results often go unseen for years. But it is no gimmick.” Another viral tweet of mine suggested this as something like a Hippocratic Oath for humanities professors—perhaps we could call it the Socratic Oath. But it is the true, crazy thing I believe.3