Possible Clues:

• Greek polymath
• Great thinker, realist struggling to assimilate religious text
• Old Greek teacher to get up having drunk dram before start of lunch
• Later Otis upset ancient Greek
• Great thinker, exceptional sort with tale to engage one
• School's founder and child left stuck in a lift
• Greek philosopher in the lyrics to Taylor Swift's "So High School"
• Noble story striking a philosopher ...
• Totaliser gamble for philosopher
• Child in Israel misconstrued polymath