Education and Democracy

"The founders of our Republic envisioned education as providing for all citizens the necessary apprenticeship in the understanding and practice of democracy. To make democracy safe we must have universal schooling; to make schooling safe for education we must have democracy. But since the founding of our country the study and practice of democracy in our schools has weakened. We must return to the primary purpose of education and ensure that it is indeed for everyone."(Goodlad, John I., Corinne Mantle-Bromley, and Stephen John Goodlad, 2004, "Education for Everyone: Agenda for Education in a Democracy," Jossey-Bass.)