If you are searching for personal freedom, you must consider how you free your mind by having necessary knowledge about yourself, interpersonal relations and other fields that are necessary to make you competent.
Besides being a freelance consultant, I am a teacher/trainer having more than 10 years of experience. I have been running my own private teaching centre, taught in schools and colleges locally and internationally. One big challenge I see when teaching people is the desire of some of the students to fake their score by cheating so that they can perform better than they really are supposed.
I know everybody would love to pass, get good grades and colorful certificate. However, if you really want personal freedom you should consider to master what you claim you are with your grades or certificates because in the end you will need to use the knowledge you claim you have.
The difficult part with academic cheating is that you can't fake knowledge - If you don't know - you don't know it. You yourself will note that there is a big burden with academic cheating when you discover you can't perform what you are expected to perform efficiently.
Sometimes you can go far without noticing the effects of your really lack of knowledge, but surely one day you will feel the burden, for example you may want to shift from the job you have to another job, the position you have to another position, the organization you have to another organization or you may want to start your own business.
They say: In the right hands, anything has a potential to be more. (Old Mutual Advert)
Choose today to be that person with the right hands, by having the right and truly knowledge.