A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play it better than anyone else.
The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism.