Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and
seems rational because the teacher knows more than his [sic] pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless
he [sic] is a very exceptional man [sic]. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to
seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position. --Bertrand Russell