Ralph Waldo Emerson on Masses

“Our modes of Education aim ... to do for masses what cannot be done for masses, what must be done reverently, one by one.”

“Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.”