In Search of Understanding

The Student Attitude Parenthetically, in selecting teachers of liberty for our selves, a good way to examine their qualifications is to determine if their ideas for positive, creative action require 49 violence (the force of the state, for example) to carry them out. If so, write them off. They are of another ilk. Those who advise the use of force in the creative areas are not even aware of liberty. They are, if terms have any meaning at all, authoritarians. If it be true that one does not become a teacher of liberty until he has advanced himself as a student; if it be true that the principle of love prospers in a condition of liberty; if it be true that the principle of violence thrives in the absence of the principle of love; if it be true that the prin ciple of violence is destructive of ourselves, of civilization, and of mankind; then it would seem to follow that the stu dent attitude should head our agenda of required activities.