Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do nothing in this 
age.  There is another personage,--a personage less imposing in 
the eyes of some, perhaps insignificant.  The schoolmaster is 
abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the 
soldier, in full military array.
 — Lord Henry Peter Brougham (Brougham and vaux)
  Education