English 101 13 June 2013 How Education Should Function: Many people, all over, ponder on the different views that roam the world pertaining to education and freedom. Every country has their individual educational systems functioning in different ways to best fit their beliefs on who is deemed eligible to be educated, and who should not receive an education. Other countries of this world also do not offer the rights to their citizens in which American citizen possess. In this country, the United States of America, having an education is a part of a person being free. In a free society, education should be of equal quality for every person while showing no discrimination, and educational institutions should provide the foundation of moral, and ethical knowledge for the students to learn how to become good citizens. Connections between education and freedom are not obscure. Frederick Douglass, of the eighteenth century, published his autobiography in which he writes the story of his life being born as an American slave. In the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Douglass makes it clear “that education and slavery were incompatible with each other” (47). He also states, it was “almost an unpardonable offense to teach slaves to read” (Douglass 48). Basically coming to the conclusion, that only people whom were free were entitled to an education; since being educated made a person understand the irrationality of slavery, and understand freedom itself. Now that America is considered to be the land of the free, with everyone having equal rights; education shall prevail, and will contribute to one’s freedom. Though present education does not necessarily make a person free, it can provide the basic knowledge of what one needs to know in order to form their own ethics. If people are educated they know their rights, and can make informed, and