The Right Kind of Education

He was a member in good standing and he thought he was helping. Bill W. told it without naming him (A.A. pamphlet P-17): "Presently an A.A. member began to publish a crusading magazine devoted to the cause of Prohibition. He thought Alcoholics Anonymous ought to help make the world bone-dry." Follow the logic, because it is not stupid. He was a drunk who had nearly died of alcohol. He had found a way out. He concluded that alcohol was the enemy and that a movement full of people who had survived it was the obvious army. "He disclosed himself as an A.A. member and freely used the A.A. name to attack the evils of whiskey and those who made it and drank it." He had even worked out an answer to the education question (Pass It On): "He pointed out that he too was an 'educator,' and that his brand of education was the 'right kind.'" And on the central charge he was entirely unembarrassed (A.A. pamphlet P-17): "As for putting A.A. into public controversy, he thought that was exactly where we should be." Not a cynic. A convinced man, using the only lever within reach.