Next in importance to freedom and justice, is popular education, without which neither justice nor freedom can be permanently maintained.

— James A. Garfield

CREATIVITY

WHAT THIS MEANS

Rights that people cannot understand or use are not worth much in practice. A population able to read carefully, follow an argument and spot a lie is what keeps liberties from being quietly taken back, which is why teaching sits so close to freedom rather than somewhere below it. Take it away and the guarantees remain on paper while the substance drains out.

Since you cannot reform a school system this week, work on the small version. Teach one person something they need and you know, and keep learning yourself at an age where nobody is making you.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Who taught you enough to make your own choices possible?

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