Nothing New Under the Sun

"This dreadful recent movement in the direction of regulation and regimentation is the cankerworm at the root of the State. The ultimate tendency is to repress all independence, originality, and individual initiation: to crush genius in the womb and utterly destroy the freedom which has been our national character and boast."

Dr Hely Hutchison Almond, 1832-1903, Headmaster of Loretto School in Scotland, lamenting government interference; in particular, government plans to test schools in order for them to be certified.