The great essayist Simon Leys said one day that education task was to prepare pupils to be the best citizen in a democracy, but that democracy is not part of th

The great essayist Simon Leys said one day that education task was to prepare pupils to be the best citizen in a democracy, but that democracy is not part of the tools used to achieve education. I think these differing views coke from different understanding of democracy. On one side democracy is reduced to "decide together", and is applied to school management, experimentally. The real democracy is on the other side.