"In just the measure that education aims to develop the individual with independence of judgment rather than to indoctrinate him with tradition and custom and official dogma, to that degree it separates him from the mass and is successful insofar as it emancipates his mind from the tyranny of herd opinion."
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Everett Dean Martin, The Conflict of the Individual and the Mass in the Modern World (1932), p. 17
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