You may kill an artist or a thinker, but you cannot acquire his art or his thought.
political Idealsby bertrand Russell
Not only teachers, but all common place 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.
Political and social institutions are to be judged by the good or harm that they do to individuals. Do they encourage creativeness rather than possessiveness? Do they embody or promote a spirit of reverence between human beings? Do they preserve self-respect?
creativeness / political / possessiveness / reverence / social