The Ten Commandments that, as a teacher, I should wish to promulgate,
might be set forth as follows:
- Do not feel absolutely certain of anything.
- Do not think it worthwhile to proceed by concealing evidence, for
the evidence is sure to come to light.
- Never try to discourage thinking for you are sure to succeed.
- When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your
husband or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by
authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and
illusory.
- Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always
contrary authorities to be found.
- Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if
you do the opinions will suppress you.
- Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now
accepted was once eccentric.
- Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement,
for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a
deeper agreement than the latter.
- Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it
is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.
- Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s
paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.
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