“What is the fruit of these teachings? Only the most beautiful and proper harvest of the truly educated-tranquility, fearlessness, and freedom. We should not trust the masses who say only the free can be educated, but rather the lovers of wisdom who say that only the educated are free”     Epictetus, Discourses, 2.1.21-23a

A lot of bullshit flooded social media during this campaign. Most to backup Trump’s lies. It did not matter to his followers as truth meant nothing. They were not all uneducated so why did they vote for him? I know why the Republicans have been going after public schools with charter schools. Again the uneducated are easily led. It hasn’t happened everywhere yet so why Trump.

So I will continue to learn by reading and listening to a variety of ideas and philosophies. I can only hope that the educated are truly free.