Prologue: For the efficiency of an army (class) consists partly in the order and partly in the general (teacher); but chiefly in the latter, because he does not depend upon the order, but the order (of the class) depends upon him. All things... are ordered together in some way, but not in the same way; and the system is not such that there is no relation between one thing and another. There is a definite connexion [sic]. Everything is ordered together to one end the arrangement is like that in a household (class-hold), where the free persons (teachers) have the least liberty to act at random, and have all or most of their actions preordained for them, whereas the others (students) have little common responsibility and act for the most part at random. --Aristotle, Metaphysics.
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