The problem of politics is to adjust the relations of the human beings in such a way that each severally may have as much of good in his existence as possible.
And this problem requires that we should first consider waht is that we think good in the individual life.
To begin with, we do not want all men to be alike.
We do not want to lay down a pattern or type to which men of all sorts are to be made by some means or another to approximate.
This is the ideal of the impatient administrator. A bad teacher will aim at imposing his opinion, and turning out a set of pupils all of whom will give the same definite answer on a doubtful point.
Mr. Bernard Shaw is said to hold that Troilus and Cressida is the best of Shakespeare's plays.
Although i disagree with this opinion, i should welcome it in a pupil as a sign of individuality.
But most teachers would not tolerate such a heterodox view. Not only teachers, but all commonplace persons in authority, desire in their subordinates that kind of uniformity which makes their actions easily predictable and never inconvenient.
The result is that they crush initiative and individuality when they can, and when they cannot, they quarrel with it.
In Political Ideals - Bertrand Russel.
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