Education

arrived at about the same time, it is said.

I've always felt that the fatal flaw of any education system existing in a so-called "democracy", is that almost no democratic processes are even practiced. How can you get good at it if you don't actually practice it?

If you think it would be impossible to "run" a school using democratic principles, then just admit you don't really believe in those principles. See, a real school is not a machine that "runs" anything at all. Get it?

I've had good, really good teachers, who get this, but we've constrained them so much, and elevated the meritocracy ideal way beyond anything meritorious at all.