"How do students come by the opinions they hold, especially those acquired in the course of schooling? They have adopted them on the naked authority of teachers who acted as if they were productive, not cooperative, artists—teachers who indoctrinated them by didactic instruction that was not accompanied by any acts of thinking or discovery on their part.I have used the phrase “naked authority” to signify the authority arrogated to themselves by teachers who expect students to accept what they tell them simply because they occupy the position of teachers. The only legitimate authority is the authority of the reasons relevant or the evidence supporting whatever is to be understood."
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Mortimer Adler, “Teaching, learning, and their counterfeits”
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