What does a well instructed people alone can be permanently a free people mean?

What this means is that unless a people are educated they will not know their liberities, their rights, or how to properly execute them. This sentence was spoken by James Madison who encouraged Congress to institute a national university for that purpose. Men and women who know are more likely to desire freedom than those who do not. Example? Does who are more likely to believe they do not have certain freedoms according to the Constitution are more often than not people who have not read the Constitution let alone studied framers to understand their intentions in producing the document.