Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Freedom and justice depend on widespread education to survive permanently.
- In plain terms
- Education is vital to keep freedom and justice alive.
- What can you take from it?
- Education is necessary to sustain freedom and justice.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How does education protect freedom?
- What else sustains justice?
Another view
It underestimates other factors like economics or enforcement.
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