November 28, 2025

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.

Lord Brougham (1778–1868), Scottish politician, U.K. Chancellor, attributed, in Jay p.58

Are you a leader or a driver? A governor or an enslaver? Really? Where’s the evidence?

The attack on free public education in a democracy—whether it focuses on teachers, administrators, unions, whatever, is, at bottom, an attack on democracy itself, since an educated public is the only secure foundation for a democracy, after a free press. That does not mean we can’t improve how we educate the next generation.