Though the reformer is seen as a champion of change, he actually looks down on anything that can be changed. Only that which is corrupt and inferior must be subjected to the treatment of change. The reformer prides himself on the possession of an eternal unchangeable truth. It is his hostility toward things as they are which goads him to change them; he is, as it were, inflicting on them an indignity. Hence his passion for change is not infrequently a destructive passion.
Indeed, snake oil salesmen always look down upon their marks customers. And education reformers always send their kids to hyper-traditional schools.
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