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He did identify himself as a teacher, saying "The Ten Commandments that, as a teacher, I should wish to promulgate..". So he clearly wants to see those commandments followed by teachers.



I think the parent is right. Russell was presenting the ten commandments that he would teach, in constrast to those taught at sunday school.

There's also the legendary section of his C.V.:

Awards and honours

1950: Nobel prize for literature

193?: Pronounced morally unfit to teach at university by the supreme court of New York state


"When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children"

He is clearly speaking to what he perceives as being an adult female demographic.


Isn't that in a sense addressing teachers?




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