ABSTRACT
The supreme end of education. The supreme end of education in a democracy is the making of the democratic character. My use of the term "making" intends, however, to give no comfort to an "assembly line" conception of education. It is not a matter of technique in which a teacher, conceived of as an active agent, "does something to" a student conceived of as a passive agent. It presumes that there are democratic characters in our society who wish to see the preservation of democracy and who wish to give an opportunity for other democratic characters to arise who will, in turn, make for the further preservation of democracy, and so on through all the generations of time.
