6. How do literacy and mass education help for the functioning of democracy?
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“Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights."
“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”
“An educated citizenry is a vital requisite for our survival as a free people.
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Democratic education is an educational ideal in which democracy is both a goal and a method of instruction. It brings democratic values to education and can include self-determination within a community of equals, as well as such values as justice, respect and trust.
A discussion class at Shimer College, a democratic college in Chicago
The history of democratic education spans from at least the 1600s. While it is associated with a number of individuals, there has been no central figure, establishment, or nation that advocated democratic education.[1]
Democratic education is often specifically emancipatory, with the students' voices being equal to the teacher's.[2]