by Brent Johnson
"Above all I hope that the [philosophical and political] education of the common people will be attended to so they won't forget the basic principles of freedom." - Thomas
Jefferson
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free it expects what never was and never will be... The people cannot be safe without information. Where the press is free, and every man is
able to read, all is safe." - Thomas Jefferson
Education is a key necessity in a society that seeks to have a free population that is capable
of defending and protecting its freedoms from those who seek to violate the liberties on which it was built; most especially, from the governments charged with administering and maintaining the freedoms of that society.