Knowledge is the only fountain both of the love and the principles of human liberty.

Wanting freedom and knowing how to keep it both depend on understanding what it is. People do not defend what they cannot describe, and a right whose workings nobody grasps gets traded for something concrete without much argument. That is why education and liberty travel together. The habit of thinking for yourself is also the habit that makes being governed badly intolerable.

Learn how one thing that affects you actually works: a law, a policy, a rule at your workplace. Understanding is what turns vague unease into an argument you can make. It also shows you which complaints are worth your energy.