Education, freedom, security
Media
Part of Panorama
- Title
- Education, freedom, security
- Language
- English
- Source
- Volume XIX (Issue No. 2) February 1967
- Year
- 1967
- Subject
- Education
- Career development
- Vocation
- Rights
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- Fulltext
- Vol. XIX TMI PNIUPPINt MAGAZINE OF GOOD BEADING Entered as second class mail matter at the Manila Post Office on Dec. 7, 1955 MANILA, PHILIPPINES No. 2 EDUCATION, FREEDOM, SECURITY Education is “liberal” in proportion as it assists in the formation of a personal will, develops the faculty <jf choice, and furnishes that faculty with a rich reservoir of estimated possibilities. It enables the individual to choose for himself, circumspectly and wisely. It is opposed to such education as merely fits the individual for a form of activity that is chosen for him by others, or is the re sult of circumstances beyond his control. Ideally it means that every career should be a vocation. * * * Choosing is a burdensome privilege, from which men shrink, and for which they need to be prepared. It means something to speak of “being relieved from the necessity of choosing.” There is a rivalry between the cult of secu rity and the cult of freedom — being looked out* for, and looking out for oneself. Which goes to prove, if further proof were needed, that American democracy requires effort, and is not a comfortable refuge or a line of least resistance. — Ralph Barton Perry in American Democracy.