Universal suffrage makes every man a ruler.
If every man is a ruler, every man needs the education that rulers ought to have. The main purpose of a democratic educational system is the education of rulers. Admittedly there are a number of educators who do not profess these goals, and in some cultures a majority of educators would be opposed. Even in our own culture these are the functional goals of few educators. The approach to education which we are about to describe is not aimed toward these latter goals, but is an attempt to find a method which will achieve the goal described here as democratic.