At my old school, Heritage Academy, we talked a lot about what freedom meant to us and the founding fathers along with what they did to protect it and what we should do to protect it. The main thing that we emphasized was that the more corrupt people the more rules they need thus to be free we must be educated. So, the real question was what does it mean to be educated? To be educated means to know what to do and know what not to do. For instance, speeding laws are a just really recommendation. If people were to know not to speed, which is safer than speeding surprise, speeding laws wouldn’t be needed. To me, freedom means to be able to execute your basic human rights, life liberty and the pursuit of happiness, however if your pursuit of happiness