Principles of Principals

"Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." - Voltaire Over and over again, we have learned it is the nature of all people when given a little to power, to exert unrighteous dominion over their fellow humans. To dehumanize and objectify one another, distilling away individualism, and replacing it with a group identity. Mormon. Jew. Black. Racist. Male. Jock. Nerd. In 1966, students identifying themselves as Red Guard (unsolicited protectors of Mao Tse Tung) began beating, torturing, and killing their own teachers and administrators. To be brief in writing, educators across China, grade levels, and subject matter disciplines fell at the hands of children. Middle school students were considered the worst offenders. The total death toll of what historians and documentarians refer to as a Revolution  or Great Leap Forward numbers in the 10's of millions. I looked for numbers on teachers and professors, and I didn't find anything sol...