Democracy Quote by William Glasser

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express theirchoice are prepared to choosewisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

— Franklin D Roosevelt (1882â1945

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Students should not only be trained to live in a democracy when they grow up; they should have the chance to live in one…

— Alfie Kohn

In many countries, schools are preparing students to participate in a democratic environment; yet schools themselves tend to be extremely autocratic, with all high-level…

— Adora Svitak

Education as a democratic project always presupposes a vision of the future in its introduction to, preparation for, and legitimation of particular forms of…

— Henry Giroux

A successful school has to engage all the people, all the powers, and all the capacities within it.

— Andy Hargreaves

What can the schools do to defend democracy? Should they preach a specific political doctrine? I believe they should not. If they are able…

— Albert Einstein

Each time I visit such a classroom, where the teacher is more interested in creating a democratic community than in maintaining her position of…

— Alfie Kohn

“It is particularly important to note that, in a democracy, education has never been concerned only with supplying the needs of the economy or…

— Gaby Weiner

Politics in a democracy is, at the end, an educational process.

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

Nowhere has democracy ever worked well without a great measure of local self-government, providing a school of political training for the people at large…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Democracy is the best school to learn soft power.

— Joseph Nye