New Curriculum Policy Statement: Freedom and/or Regulation–1

Abstract

What has struck me as interesting is the fact at this point in time when the chant of has been heard not only throughout this country but throughout the world, we seem to be concerned about too much freedom—about producing a crisis of freedom—and I wonder why. Can there really be too much freedom, and if so, then how much is too much? Basically, I believe that one cannot have too much of it, as long as this freedom is tied to responsibility. It might help to dif ferentiate here between freedom, which implies a lack of control from without, and responsibility, which implies controls from within. Even the ideally existentialist total ly free man still needs to create the sym bols which will give meaning to what might otherwise be a totally meaningless life, and these symbols, which serve to order a disordered universe, imply certain inner controls.