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Yes, because for Emerson and Thoreau to really sink in, you just have to experience a non-conformist act for yourself...

What will this teacher do if an author like Hemingway or Fitzgerald comes up? Suggest to the kids that they should really get loaded on liquor (or worse)?

What will this teacher do if an author like Hemingway or Fitzgerald comes up?

Options:
- Get liquored up on mojitos
- Get liquored up on wine
- Get liquored up on whiskey
- Get liquored up on vodka
- Get liquored up on gin
- Pass out (Fitzgerald)
- Insult everyone around you, get into a bar fight (Hemingway)
- Get liquored up and go to a bull fight
- Get liquored up and go fishing
- Get liquored up and go hunting
- Have sex with your friends' wives (Hemingway)
- Go visit your wife in the mental hospital (Fitzgerald)
- Have a nervous breakdown

It's all good.