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The right of the modern man to education became fundamental to his freedom once the mastery of Nature by science transformed the sources of power.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski argues that education is a fundamental right for modern individuals to achieve freedom.
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The essence of the persecuting position is always that the persecutor has hold of truth and that he would betray its service by allowing it to be questioned.
He is able, accordingly, to indulge in the twofold luxury not only of preserving his own authority, but also of assisting the persons attacked to enter, if they so choose, the way of truth.
Each age finds that the incidence of freedom is significant at some special point, and there, once more, the lesson of freedom has to be learned.
We grant it in religion to deny it in politics; we grant it in politics, to deny it in economic matters.
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