A man is to cling to and affirm his individuality, not in order that he may rest in it and make much of it, but in order that he may outgrow it and pass far beyond it in that one way--the best way for him--which it, and it alone, is able to mark out for him.

In other words, he is to assert his individual self in order that he may universalise himself in his own way, and not in obedience to the ruling of custom and authority, in order that he may escape from himself through the real outlet of sincere self-expression, and not through the sham outlet of hypocrisy and cant.
What I may call the Utopian scheme of education, far from making for antinomianism and anarchy, is the sworn enemy of individualism and therefore, _a fortiori_, of everything that savours of licence.

It is the conventional type of education, with its demands for mechanical obedience to external authority, which leads through despotism to social and political chaos.

The whole _regime_ of mechanical obedience is favourable, in the long run, to the development of anarchy.

Let us take the case of a church or an autocracy which demands implicit obedience from its subjects, and is prepared to exact such obedience by the application of physical force or its moral equivalent.