Nice and provocative story.  But one might question the teacher yet further and ask whether there is in fact a qualitative difference between his advice and that of the other "counselors"?  Or, doesn't he have confidence in a person's ability to perceive quality advice?  Or, is he just expressing a common frustration of very smart people--that others don't listen to them/us?   On a vocabulary note, my dictionary has 暴 as "bao"； with the "mouth" radical and same basic character  (I can't find the symbol on Google translate, but it is in the Oxford Dictionary--) as "pu"--