THE LITTLE DEMOCRACY
The schoolhouse is the logical center for the community organization because schoolhouses are the property of the people and because they are conveniently distributed in every section of the country. President Wilson's pronouncement on this subject is full of ringing truths. He said:
"A vision of the meaning of democracy opens before us when we conceive of citizens going to school to one another in the common schoolhouses to understand and answer public questions, as hitherto only representatives of the citizens (in legislatures) have gone to school to one another in the buildings provided for them.
"When we make this use of these buildings that belong to all of us, that stand ready in every neighborhood in America, we are recovering in a very practical way the institution which freemen have always and everywhere held fundamental—the institution of common counsel and mutual comprehension. In this restoration of the ancient equipment and practice of freemen, we are meeting a vital need of our new and complex age. We are answer-
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