amazing because it is

"Absolute fearlessness is the first essential for the teacher on whom rests the responsibility for governing an elementary or secondary school. This fearlessness is not alone or chiefly the expression of phys- ical courage, although this must not be lacking. It is rather an expres- sion of moral courage … standing firm in one’s convictions even though the community may not approve …it is this sort of courage that is the rarest and, at the same time, the most essential."

Chandler Bagley of the University of Illinois, 1907

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