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Education 121
ape, double, in the case of man, the effect
of heredity. Conservatism is for the present
stronger in mankind than the effort to pro-
duce new types. But this last characteristic
is the most valuable. The educator should do
anything but advise the child to do what every-
body does. He should rather rejoice when he
sees in the child tendencies to deviation.
Using other people’s opinion as a standard re-
sults in subordinating one’s self to their
will. So we become a part of the great mass,
led by the Superman through the strength of
his will, a will which could not have mastered
strong personalities. It has been justly re-
marked that individual peoples, like the Eng-
lish, have attained the greatest political and
social freedom, because the personal feeling of
independence is far in excess of freedom in a
legal form. Accordingly legal freedom has
been constantly growing.
For the progress of the whole of the species,
as well as of society, it is essential that educa-
tion shall awake the feeling of independence;
it should invigorate and favour the disposition
to deviate from the type in those cases where
the rights of others are not affected, or where
deviation is not simply the result of the desire
to draw attention to oneself. The child should
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