A Student of Liberty

The individual who does not thoroughly understand, and is not able competently to explain, the fact of our interdependence and how it can be satisfied solely with voluntary effort, also cannot correctly say that he has mastered the subject of liberty. If this be right, then nearly every person I have ever talked with, read about, or heard of is a neophyte in his understanding of this subject. A Student of Liberty In brief, not a single person among us is justified in re garding himself other than as a student of liberty. It is wrong and destructive of our high purpose to assume the teacher attitude by self-appointment. These self-appointments as teachers - activities seen all about us - are based on two false assumptions and are the cause of much mischief. The assumptions are (1) that a man becomes a teacher by self-designation and (2) that everything would be all right, or at least much better, 46 if only everyone else could be brought up to the "teacher's"