“There is a natural connection between the teaching profession and a taste for totaliarian government; prolonged association with the immature–fanatical urchins competing for caps and blazers of distinguishing colours–the dangerous pleasure of over-simple exposition, the scars of the endless losing battle for order and uniformity which rages in every classroom, dispose even the most independent minds to shirt-dipping and saluting.”
Evelyn Waugh, “For Schoolboys Only”
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