What is Liberty? What is a Mind?
“Liberty is the child of intelligence.” (Robert Ingersoll, 1877)
A mind that can't grasp the concept of liberty wanders in a dark asylum of illusions.
The American Constitution wasn't written to generate passive benefits. It wasn't a philosophic food-stamp operation.
Originally, the aim of public education was to impart an understanding of what it meant to participate in a new Republic, as a citizen, in a great experiment.