Show EDUCATION IX IN A DEMOCRACY The essential difference between life in a n democracy and life Ufe in a dictator-controlled dictator state is that ina in ina a democracy the people do their own thinking There are people even in America who would like to have their thinkIng thinking thinking think think- ing done for them b by some higher authority with power to give everybOdy everybody everybody every every- body orders And there are a great I II Iman I man many well-meaning well citizens who would like to have all the thinking dono for COl the young by some somo supervisor supervisory supervisory super super- visor body or authority y How often we hear people criticize criticize criticize cize the way the schools are con con- ducted When one Is sure that hi- hi 01 or she has exactly the correct point m nt view on everything and that tS t Pi Nj y other point of view Is I or t t s easy to become alarmed to cli di discover dis- dis I. I cover that school children and college college collego col col- lege lego students are being encouraged I I to think out the problems of life and living HYing for themselves and are not being forced to believe something which their teachers have told them Dr Dr- John W. W Nason the new President President dent of Swarthmore College pointed point point- ed out that democracy cannot be In Indoctrinated Indoctrinated indoctrinated In- In without destroying it It If It our democratic way of life cannot cannot cannot can can- not hold Its own under free and impartial scrutiny it were better lost he said in his recent inaugural address |