In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.
Democracy is something that you must learn each generation. It has to be taught.
I want people to learn what democracy means.
The values and voices of democracy are silent. Either we have lost touch with those values or, no better, believe they need not or cannot be taught.
Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
We Americans have the great gifts of freedom and democracy, but it has been our education system that has fulfilled the promise of democracy.
We know that if we're going to remain economically competitive in the world, and viable as a civic democracy, that we're going to have to get more people educated to higher levels.
Anybody who asks for democracy to be introduced should respect the results of democracy.
Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.