From ‘Portraits from Memory and Other Essays’ by Bertrand Russell:
I have come to realise that freedom is a principle to which there are very important limitations of which those in education are in a certain sense typical. What people will do in given circumstances depends enormously upon their habits; and good habits are not acquired without discipline...
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