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THE LITTLE DEMOCRACY

ing in feeling, respect for the personality of other people, and faith in the good intentions of the average man. When one considers the requirements for this office, one's first impulse is to do what King Solomon did. After making a rarely beautiful description of a wise and ideal wife, he ended it by asking, "but where can such a woman be found?"

Where possible, the Community Secretary ought to be the principal of the school. In thousands of villages and open-country communities the teacher's work lasts for only part of the year and the compensation is shamefully inadequate. This is a great economic waste as well as an injury to children. If these teachers were made community secretaries, were given an all-year round job, and were compensated for the additional work by a living wage, it would mead a better type of teacher and a better type of school. The bigger task would not only demand the bigger person, but the task itself would create them. Moreover, when the teacher's activities become linked up with life processes, the Community will be the more will-

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