free-man

A free man does not do what must be done, but what should be done.

The student__ biggest problem was a slave mentality which had been built into him by years of carrot-and- whip grading, a mule mentality which said, "If you don__ whip me, I won__ work." He didn__ get whipped. He didn__ work. And the cart of civilization, which he supposedly was being trained to pull, was just going to have to creak along a little slower without him. This is a tragedy, however, only if you presume that the cart of civilization, "the system," is pulled by mules. This is a common, vocational, "location" point of view, but it__ not the Church attitude. The Church attitude is that civilization, or "the system" or "society" or whatever you want to call it, is best served not by mules but by free men. The purpose of abolishing grades and degrees is not to punish mules or to get rid of them but to provide an environment in which that mule can turn into a free man.

Patriotism,_ said Theodore Roosevelt, __eans to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President or any other public official save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. _ Every man,_ said President Roosevelt, __ho parrots the cry of __tand by the President_ without adding the proviso __o far as he serves the Republic_ takes an attitude as essentially unmanly as that of any Stuart royalist who championed the doctrine that the King could do no wrong. No self-respecting and intelligent free man could take such an attitude.