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Such pseudo-teachers do not want to enhance the self-reliance of their students, do not want to increase their strength but rather to diminish it. They prefer to have people around them to act like blotting-paper and merely absorb first, ideas, in order to reproduce them without thinking and second, commands, in order to obey them without hesitation.

-- Notebooks Category 16: The Sensitives > Chapter 5 : Pseudo and Imperfect Teachers > # 65