Quote:
Originally Posted by nmap
"How many people can resist the views of those they are surrounded by for a decade or more and keep their own views secret throughout that time?'
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Or one could ask, "How many people, with tenets and beliefs radically different and, at times, in direct opposition to those of their superiors, can earn a prestigious title/position?"
If you don't think like those who reside higher in the ivory tower they will act to make sure you stay beneath them, because young men and women aren't responsible/smart enough to hear differences of opinion from authority figures and make up their own minds. And, in the opinion of the professors, anyone who does not think like them must be of inferior intellect, because, well, they are professors and those other guys aren't. (Stupid, huh?)
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"The dignity of man is not shattered in a single blow, but slowly softened, bent, and eventually neutered. Men are seldom forced to act, but are constantly restrained from acting. Such power does not destroy outright, but prevents genuine existence. It does not tyrannize immediately, but it dampens, weakens, and ultimately suffocates, until the entire population is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid, uninspired animals, of which the government is shepherd." - Alexis de Tocqueville
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