ABSTRACT
Education offers example of the tight connection between liberalism and integrity. Integrity appears as a crucial element of widely differing approaches to liberation as the works of John Stuart Mill and Karl Marx. Citizen Busybody cannot safeguard the integrity of Citizen Compliant by maintaining a catalog of Compliant's beliefs and values and by requiring Compliant to act in ways that Busybody regards as consonant with the catalog entries. Marx expressed the concern for integrity in his discussions of alienation and estrangement. What Marx would have changed in light of his concern for the integrity of individuals hardly resembles Mill's prescriptions. Nonetheless, Mill's liberalism and Marx's liberalism can both be interpreted as doctrines intended to protect the integrity of persons. Persons acting individually could take some of the political action necessary to the revolution. In most times and places, would-be revolutionaries find the state too big, too powerful to topple.
