ABSTRACT
The problem of education in its relation to the direction of social change is all one with the problem of finding out what democracy means in its total range of concrete applications: economic, domestic, international, religious, cultural, and political. … The trouble … is that we have taken democracy for granted; we have thought and acted as if our forefathers had founded it once and for all. We have forgotten that it has to be enacted anew in every generation, in every year and day, in the living relations of person to person, in all social forms and institutions. Forgetting this … we have been negligent in creating a school that should be the constant nurse of democracy.
