This condition obtains even where there is no slavery in the legal sense. It is found wherever men are engaged in activity which is socially serviceable, but whose service they do not understand and have no personal interest in. On the other hand, a society which ensures and provides for the participation of all of its members equally, i.e., through the preparatory processes of education may be considered to be democratic. 1 ohn Dewey. The Democratic Conception in Education Democracy and Education.
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