Bureaucracy is the epoxy that greases the wheels of progress.
There is no good reason why police, or gaols, or the administration of justice, should be differently managed in one part of the kingdom and in another.
They work for bureaucracies and they become bureaucratized themselves.
[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
As a bureaucracy becomes more established, it develops its own career structure. It is less dependent, and should be less dependent, on individual personalities. Absolutely no one is indispensable.
I think there is a sort of box-ticking mentality. Not just in the teaching profession. You hear about it in medicine and nursing. It's a lawyer-driven insistence on meeting prescribed standards rather than just being a good doctor.
It takes more than a trained army … it takes an institutionalized army.
