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Quotation from Essays on Education in a Republic by Benjamin Rush
“Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge.”
Essays on Education in a Republic, A Plan for Establishing Public Schools in Pennsylvania (Essays, Literary, Moral and Philosophical (1798), Text Creation Partnership transcription)
The second of Rush's six advantages of learning, which he calls favourable to liberty.
Citation: "Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge." — Benjamin Rush, Essays on Education in a Republic, A Plan for Establishing Public Schools in Pennsylvania (Essays, Literary, Moral and Philosophical (1798), Text Creation Partnership transcription). (id rush-essays-on-education-in-a-republic-q1)
Portrait: Portrait of Benjamin Rush, Charles Willson Peale, Public domain.
