Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
There's some confirmation bias here.
Sounds like survivorship bias to me: yes, every opinion now accepted was once eccentric, but most eccentric opinions of the past have been rejected so thoroughly that we're unlikely to have ever heard of them.
Betrand Russell's Ten Commandments for teachers.
I find this to be of use not just for teachers but for rationalists in general. #8, especially, is an especially eloquent formulation of Aumann's Agreement Theorem.