Our readingWhat is a korrent?
Drawn from what Alexis de Tocqueville said
government What states are for and what they are worse at than markets and networks: legitimacy, moral hazard, and who may be entrusted with power.
education How children are taught and tested: schools, tutoring, what a lesson at the right level does, and what AI changes.
Town-meetings are to liberty what primary schools are to science; they bring it within the people’s reach, they teach men how to use and how to enjoy it. A nation may establish a system of free government, but without the spirit of municipal institutions it cannot have the spirit of liberty.
Where this was said
↗Democracy in America, Volume 1 (1835; Henry Reeve translation)gutenberg.org
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