IS RoL'NlJ L'l' -lust as in life, there is a certain social readjustment in the school. llo not understand this to mean the forming of certain so called sets or cliques, but merely the going ahead of some who have a greater amount of natural ability than others. So from this it is seen that the school develops an aristocracy as well as a democracy. lt is charged that the public schools and especially the high school exercise a tendency which is opposed to democracy in that they create a distaste for labor, that is, physical labor. l'art of this is again connected with the idea of social rise which means to many less work on the part of the individual rising. Here is where such courses of industrial training as manual training, gardening and do- mestic science are justified because of the fact that they give the student manual labor and the best ways in which to do it. . One eminent man even goes so far as to' blame the modes of dress of the girls for the apparent lack of democracy. He suggests that it be made a law for all girls in high school to wear an established fashion of dress. llut Democracy really seems to mean respecting the rights of the other fellow and giving everyone the square deal from start to finish. lt will be a long step toward school democracy when every student in the school will be able to go into every class and say every day that he or she has worked honestly for the day's lesson. XYhether this will come before the school is a self-governing body or as the result of self-government remains to be seen, but with everyone get- ting the square deal all around there will be about the nearest approach to school democracy that is possible. XYhen our school system was originated, the one thing that the originators of it prided themselves on was that it afforded an equal olmporttmity for all, but they overlooked the fact that only those who could afford higher education had equal opportunities. Democracy in the schools cannot shut this door of equal opportunity to any. 'l'o have democracy we should at least have as practical an educa- tion as possible for those who are not able to go on with higher education. 'lihe business of the schools is to make life worth living and not only to make a man happy but to make him good for some- thing. lf it is possible to make a man an honest leader in his own field. a workman who is not afraid, or ashamed of his work, there is no cause to dread the consequences of social democracy. This task may be impossible but democracy will never become practical until what now an ideal becomes the basis of its practicability.
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