COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION: EDUCATION FOR DEMOCRACY.

The article analyzes the role education could play in furtherance of democracy. It informs that formal procedure of education is necessary to learn the know-how of participation. These two ways of education should be interrelated and organized to go on at the same time. The frame of this educational process must be a social setting broader than the family circle, but narrow enough that every participant has a feeling of belonging to it. Littered streets, unprotected traffic intersection dangerous for children, juvenile delinquency, gang warfare, insufficient recreational facilities for youngsters and adults, no facilities for adult education, no library in the vicinity, bad physical conditions in the schools, poor transportation system, excessive prices for public utilities, discriminatory practices in hospitals, need for a program of public housing, need for a public health center, need to eradicate police-protected vices--these are but a few issues that lend themselves as a foci for community attention.