Epictetus
Please consider the following quote and place your thoughts about it within your reply:
"We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free."
-- Epictetus - (ca 55-135 A.D.) Greek philospher - Source: Discourses
Epictetus (Hover)
"He is free who lives as he wishes to live; who is neither subject to compulsion nor to hindrance, nor to force; whose movements to action are not impeded, whose desires attain their purpose, and who does not fall into that which he would avoid."
-- Epictetus (ca 55-135 A.D.) Greek philosopher Source: Discourses, ca 100 A.D.