11/10/2025
“A bad teacher will aim at imposing his opinion, and turning out a set of pupils all of whom will give the same definite answer on a doubtful point. Not only teachers, but all commonplace persons in authority, desire in their subordinates that kind of uniformity which makes their actions easily predictable and never inconvenient. The result is that they crush initiative and individuality when they can, and when they cannot, they quarrel with it.“
— Bertrand Russell, Political Ideals (1917), Ch. I: Political Ideals, p. 4. Image: Bertrand Russell lectures, UCLA. 1939.