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  • All education is despotism. It is perhaps impossible for the young to be conducted without introducing in many cases the tyranny implicit in obedience. Go there; do that; read; write; rise; lie down - will perhaps forever be the language addressed to youth by age.

    William Godwin (1823). “The enquirer. Reflections on education, manners, and literature. In a series of essays”, p.53