Democracy in education

Abstract

As our nation celebrates its bicentennial, we are again reminded of effects of forces from abroad which have had an impact on our own development. Our historical democratic antecedents were forces and changes released as European countries threw off yoke of feudalism and moved through absolute monarchies to contemporary nation-state. Weber' has written that, the growth of bureaucracy in government, business, religion, and education while distinguishing modern from medieval world, also holds seed of possibility of moving toward one of two alternatives-a future of freedom or despotism. These forces leading to increasing centralization are, in his words, the fundamental forces of rationalization of government which if followed to its extended course of evolution reaches a totalitarian mode of bureaucratic organization. Our form of democracy has seen bureaucracy grow as machinery used to enhance attainment of its objectives. The principal of rule by people is challenged by size and complexity of bureaucracy. The interesting question arises as to whether there comes a time when latter takes over