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The teacher who demands blind obedience from his pupil belongs to a vanishing age. The teacher who strives to make his pupil's own mind understand each step of the way he travels belongs to the coming age. The first often ends by enslaving his followers, whereas the second ends by liberating them. The first is a dictator, the second a companion. The first creates nonentities, the second, men.

-- Notebooks Category 1: Overview of the Quest > Chapter 6 : Student-Teacher > # 500