Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Ignorant And Free? Not For Long

No matter how you view it, freedom is fragile.   It requires a great deal of attention.  In a civilization, it does not come natural.  It must be worked at.  Freedom requires two main things in order for it's existence to be sustained.  The two are moral parameters and education.  Formal education creates leaders.  Moral education creates leaders that guide the appropriate way.  Freedom and corruption creates more corruption and demise.  One of the founders of this great nation saw the relationship between freedom and education.

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."
Thomas Jefferson   (The Outlines of Geography and History)

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