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The democratic origin is individualism. The liberal origin is also individualism. The individualistic origin is self. Therefore, democracy and liberalism are premised on self establishment. That is, the purpose of democratic education and liberal education is in self establishment.

If the man who can control self action neither by the impulse nor the desire comes to occupy a social general trend, democracy will collapse. The right of the freedom represented by freedom of speech also serves as a crisis. This is because it is an individualistic defeat. That it becomes impossible to control self means because they is self loss. This is the principle of democratic education.

Democracy is the society on condition of the self which carried out autonomy. Therefore, a democratic country duty-izes education. It is said that self will be established by compulsory education. The purpose of the compulsory education of our country is also self establishment.

　Then, is this purpose protected, as for the present compulsory education? While an organization and dissidence side also borrows a democratic name, the present condition is having trampled down this purpose and the principle. So, democracy of Japan and liberalism are facing a crisis.

This is treason to a democratic state and a liberal state.

Active will is in self. It is democracy by unearthing and developing this self autonomy that active will will be made to establish and the autonomous society on the basis of an individual will be built.

That is, a subject is in a student side. The present educational system forgets this. And not to mention it establishes self, self is made to lose on the contrary.

Consequently, the man who cannot suit society, and the man who cannot make human relations are produced.

It is environment to make self establish. Self is touched off by consciousness and experience and wakes up. Environment touches off such consciousness and experience. Therefore, democratic education begins from the place which improves the environment which encloses a student.

The educational spot is the society itself. Democratic education is because the purpose is in making democratic fundamental structure master.

　An educational subject is in a student and a guardian. However, since minors are not accepted in suffrage, as for a compulsory education period, a guardian executes this by proxy. Therefore, the educational sovereignty in a compulsory education period is in a guardian, especially parents. A guardian has the right in which its opinion is made to reflect to a school rule the curriculum of a school, a textbook, a teacher, and at large. Duty occurs rather than there is a right. The right which chooses a textbook is not a publishing company or a teacher, either, and is in a student and a guardian also in school. The problem of the present educational system has the student and guardian in being eliminated from the educational spot.

　It is host and guest's fall that the student who is a sovereign, and the guardian obey the school and the teacher. Moreover, it is contrary to democratic soul to form the society [ exclusive ] where the school was isolated from status society.

　Democracy is premised on people being actively concerned with politics. In order to concern people with politics actively, it is necessary to attach democratic structure and a democratic rule to the body. For that purpose, the school had to be opened by the community. To management of a school, a local resident and a guardian concern themselves positively. The relation between a school, and a guardian and a local resident is looked like [ the relation between a company and a stockholder ].

　A ceremony, and form are made light of in the education of postwar our country. Although there is direction considered that a ceremony, and 典礼 and form are feudal, there is no organization in which just democracy respects a ceremony, 典礼, and form. That is because democracy is not personal organization but the organization based on an idea called law. If based on what [ ideological and abstract ] called an idea at all, it is necessary to express to a certain form. So, a ceremony and 典礼 are needed. Moreover, originally with democracy, it is based on procedure. Form is important in procedure.

　The starting point of democratic education is making self establish, learning this procedure and form by study and experience. For that purpose, you have to set the educational spot in the actual world. The role of a school is assisting the education in the actual world. That is, it is the state of educational original that democracy enables it for something to understand personally what freedom is through actual human relations and an actual occurrence.

　There must be a belief in the origin of courtesy. The essence of a belief is a thought principle. It will be summarized by saying that the problem in human relations is troublesome if there is no belief. a result -- trouble -- not applying -- if -- what -- you may carry out -- と -- saying -- 事にな . However, the concept of being troublesome lacks the fundamental standard which stands up man's act.

A teacher teaches the fundamental form of courtesy and the student itself is made to master the soul of the origin through it. It is the true figure of democratic education.

The present educational system is performing that it is completely the opposite of democracy to the bottom of a democratic name. Therefore, it has set in the situation also with critical democracy and liberalism. As it is, if it is left, the society where any are democratic will collapse or the state itself will be ruined. It is repeating the fault which the school and the teacher committed at prewar days.
　
The starting point of democratic education must not forget to be in the free will in which the student did autonomy, i.e., self. And just their future and the possibility in children should recollect that it is the most important precious article.

Don't crush children's possibility under the assumed name of democratic education.

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