It is the roof that fights the rain, but the builder who gets all the glory.
Perhaps I occasionally sought to give, or inadvertently gave, to the student a sense of battle on the intellectual battlefield. If all you do is to give them a faultless and complete and uninhabited a...
(n.) One who builds; one whose occupation is to build, as a carpenter, a shipwright, or a mason.
Not the builder, but the writer, creates the road to the future.