User blog comment:Zolnir/Ozpin: The Age Immortal Headmaster/@comment-9464517-20140825235813

Older people can go through life making less mistakes than younger people. And as headmaster of a school, Ozpin has to make many, many decisions regarding who to allow into the school and so on. I don't think it's outlandish to suggest that someone in his position, with his level of power, could make a hell of a lot of mistakes, more so than someone with an inferior role, such as Port. And as for Port's comments on Ozpin's success... It's all about perspective. Most people consider Stephen Hawking to be a success - he's a highly regarded physicist with an impressive track record, but he's probably made tons of errors and other mistakes over his career. To err is human. In Port's eyes, Ozpin may be some kind of hugely inspirational force for good, but Ozpin himself is riddled with regret at the bad decisions he's made over the years.