Excerpt from Culture, Discipline and Democracy
If I had been writing wholly from the standpoint of educational tradition, the title of this book would have been Democracy through Culture and Discipline. For the first step taken toward democratic education was to ensure intelligent citizenship by making the culture and discipline, which in the past had been reserved for privileged social classes, accessible to the whole people through a system of free schools. Writing as I have done, wholly as an investigator who records in as logical order as he can the results of his inquiry, a truer title for my work as it reaches its completion would be Culture and Discipline through Direct Preparation for Democracy. For from the standpoint of culture and discipline as distinct from democracy, I have been forced to see that for the majority of individuals who do not continue to lead the life of academic specialists, no discipline can be lasting or culture continuing which is not closely related to every-day life. And to an education which is democratic only in its opportunity, I have gradually come to add education which is democratic, on the one hand, in its ideals, its subject matter, its organization and its method, and on the other, in compulsion which demands not only that each individual shall have through compulsory school attendance the rudiments of academic knowledge, but, through the compulsion of repetition, every detail of culture and discipline essential to usefulness to the community and the state.
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