الشعبُ الذي لا يعتاد المبادرةَ التلقائية لتحقيق مصلحة جماعية، ويتطلع دائمًا إلى حكومته لتأمره وتحثّه في كل شأن مشترك، ويتوقع أن يُنجَز له كل شيء، إلا ما صار مجرد عادة وروتين، تبقى ملكاته نصف منمّاة، ويكون تعليمه ناقصًا في أهم فروعه.

“A people among whom there is no habit of spontaneous action for a collective interest - who look habitually to their government to command or prompt them in all matters of joint concern - who expect to have everything done for them, except what can be made an affair of mere habit and routine - have their faculties only half developed; their education is defective in one of its most important branches.”John Stuart Mill — Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy : in Two Volumes (1849)