An opinionated piece on the acceptable practice of obedience and authority. It references several popular psychological experiments by Asch, Milgram, and Zimbardo.

“You can never conquer the mountain. You can only conquer yourself.” Jim Whittaker.

A critical review.

The mission of most schools is to produce well-rounded, good behaving young adults. Along with reading, writing, and math, children are taught social skills. Students must be quiet and must walk quietly in a single line. How many well-rounded, good behaving adults do you see following those rules? Are the social skills they are being taught in school really a means to producing independent members of the community? Or are they simply to teach the children they had better listen or else?