Which teachers talk nonsense?

And which are the teachers we say talk nonsense and are senseless, the ones Celsus stands up for as teaching better things? Unless perhaps he thinks that those who invite women to superstition and to licentious spectacles are good teachers of women and do not talk nonsense, and also that those are not senseless who lead the young and drive them along toward all the disorderly things that we know are done by them in many places.

We, for our part, invite even those who come from the doctrines of the philosophers, as far as we can, to our worship of God, showing how excellent and pure it is. But since by what he said Celsus has made out that we do not do this, but call only the foolish, we would say to him: If you were charging us with drawing away from philosophy those already devoted to it, you would not be speaking the truth, though your argument would have some plausibility. But as it is, since you say that we draw those who come to us away from good teachers, show us teachers other than the teachers of philosophy, or those who have devoted themselves to some useful subject. But he will have nothing of the kind to show.

We do promise, openly and not in secret, that those will be blessed who live according to the word of God, who look to him in all things, and who carry out whatever they do as in the sight of God who watches them. Are these, then, the lessons of wool-workers and cobblers and fullers and the most uneducated rustics? But he will not be able to show it.