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Rh if our higher education is to be really for democracy, such organization must soon come to be. When it does come it will include much more than is set forth above. Among other things, it will include larger recognition of the fact that the student body is an integral and most important part of the university; and that in all questions affecting the real policy of the university the student body must have a chance to express its deliberate will in a democratic sort of way. But before that chance comes to the student body it is likely that the problem of the democratic participation by the faculty in the actual affairs of the university must be solved.

Doubtless, monarchical, arbitrary, undemocratic ways of doing things will remain longer in the schools than anywhere else, strange as that may seem. But doubtless, even in the schools, there will some time be found enough intelligence to bring to an end such undemocratic survivals from the time of absolute monarchies, and to a beginning the organization of education along lines that will make democracy the very atmosphere of life, in school, out of school, and in all the constructive years that follow school.