Institutions are instruments made of thinking humans, not robots.

Evidence

The army is also an “instrument” for a particular end, but it is made up of thinking men and not of robots who can be utilised to the limits of their mechanical and physical cohesion. Even if one can and must, in this case too, speak in terms of what is expedient and appropriate to the objective, it is nevertheless also necessary to add the qualification: in accordance with the nature of the given instrument. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 499

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The collective attentional ecosystem, not the teacher, is the classroom’s agent. — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 271