Intolerable bureaucracy and working conditions stifle creativity and job satisfaction, not to mention the capacity to inspire students.

"The feeling was that bureaucracy around art had stifled people's ambitions, and a lot of work was getting to be of dubious quality."

Mill wrote that ultimately the bureaucracy stifles the mind, and that "A bureaucracy always tends to become a pedantocracy."

While these investments are being made outside Europe, bureaucracy is stifling the research institutions, universities and industry of Europe.

"When you have a relatively small operation like this one, particularly one in a development mode, the bureaucracy can stifle your growth."

That bureaucracy, critics claim, is stifling.

But unprofitable heavy industry, state monopolies, and opaque bureaucracies slowly stifled growth.

In too many districts, top-heavy bureaucracies with a top-down style of management stifle educational creativity.

Chinese science tends to be top-down, and the giant bureaucracy often stifles innovation.

You agree with the experts that "top-heavy bureaucracies with a top-down style of management stifle educational creativity."