Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Education empowers people to be led by reason rather than forced by tyranny.
- In plain terms
- Learned people are hard to control but easy to lead.
- What can you take from it?
- Education prevents enslavement of the mind.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Can you enslave an educated person?
- What makes leadership hard?
Another view
Education does not guarantee political freedom alone.
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