Every democratic institution is founded on one fundamental principle.
That of the majority of the people involved to direct their policy with just consideration for, but not with disproportionate interference from the minority. Now this principle of the rule of the majority is responsible for many of the inherent defects of democracy. One of these defects is the dependence of good government on the education and intelligence of the majority. That is why we have schools. But education-that is higher Negro education, has for the most part failed to take into its program a consideration of this social aspect and responsibility of education.