An educator teaches the student that he must participate in the civic life of his community in order to safeguard his freedom. He is a free agent, whether the State attempts to curtail his freedoms, to limit his choices, to define his options without his consent.
Yet we return to the same problem. Men have the tendency to choose initial pleasure and good will at the expense of the right path in the long run. They care not for the true Power who runs the universe, but choose to do as the please. And what pleases them ultimately reduces their humanity, undermines the truth of who they are.
This is the autoimmune disease which infects free societies. People use their freedom to undermine their freedom. People are afraid to be free because they do not want to hazard the consequences of their choices. They want the freedom free of the consequences.
An educator attempts to point out what freedom lies within a person, how it may be used or misused, and the skills one may develop to choose the path to take. A path is bondage, it limits freedom, but that freedom has no meaning to begin with if a person cannot choose how to exercise it in the first place.