If you ask me if I think I will be sober in 24 hours time I can say yes, but in two years I can't tell you. I could be dead.
My forebears refused to cut the sugar cane for plantation owners, and I am recognisably a product of that background.
Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.