Democratization of LearningBy Charlotte J. Cipriani(American contemporary. Teacher, writer on educational problems. From “Elimination of Waste in Elementary Education,” in “Education”—a monthly magazine.)
By Charlotte J. Cipriani
(American contemporary. Teacher, writer on educational problems. From “Elimination of Waste in Elementary Education,” in “Education”—a monthly magazine.)
Two processes of “democratization” are conceivable in the educational system of a nation; one consists in lowering educational standards and aims to the level that makes them readily acceptable and accessible to the masses; the other consists in gradually raising the intellectual level of the masses to the level of high and efficient educational standards. The admission of too early specialized “vocational training” in a public school system has a dangerous leaning towards the first process of democratization, which is apt ultimately to defeat its own end. That the second is of necessity a far lower and more laborious one, does not invalidate its superiority.