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Democracy, Educational School Development and Social Skills

Demokratiepädagogische Schulentwicklung und soziale Kompetenzen

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Democracy, Educational School Development and Social Skills at Free University Berlin

Language: GermanStudies in German
Subject area: social
Qualification: Master
Kind of studies: full-time studies
University website: www.fu-berlin.de

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Democracy
Democracy (Greek: δημοκρατία dēmokratía, literally "rule of the people"), in modern usage, is a system of government in which the citizens exercise power directly or elect representatives from among themselves to form a governing body, such as a parliament. Democracy is sometimes referred to as "rule of the majority". Democracy is a system of processing conflicts in which outcomes depend on what participants do, but no single force controls what occurs and its outcomes.
Social
Living organisms including humans are social when they live collectively in interacting populations, whether they are aware of it, and whether the interaction is voluntary or involuntary.
Democracy
The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
Benjamin Disraeli, Lothair, Chapter XVII
Democracy
People think they have taken quite an extraordinarily bold step forward when they have rid themselves of belief in hereditary monarchy and swear by the democratic republic. In reality, however, the state is nothing but a machine for the oppression of one class by another, and indeed in the democratic republic no less than in the monarchy.
Friedrich Engels, Introduction to 1891 edition of Karl Marx's, The Civil War in France
Democracy
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of bourgeois stupidity.
Gustave Flaubert, Letter to George Sand (1871)
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