Or, on the other hand, it is better to work out consciously and critically one’s own conception of the world and thus, in connection with the labours of one’s own brain, choose one’s sphere in activity, take an active part in the creation of the history of the world, be one’s own guide, refusing to accept passively and supinely from the outside the moulding of one’s personality?
Antonio Gramsci. Selections from the Prison Notebooks. New York: International (2010) 323-4.
Thoughts?