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Also, there is some value in teaching people that sometimes you just need to do what you're told... and that's coming from someone who has always been diagnosed as having "problems with authority".

That of course requires that Those In Charge have the right sense of purpose, that they know what they are teaching and why they are doing it. George Polya had some words about is, and then there is this remark in Mark's Gospel, where the people "were astonished at [Jesus'] teaching, for he taught them as one who had authority, and not as the scribes."



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