The wise, not the many...

A school is fundamentally a normative, not a utilitarian, institution, governed by the wise, not the many.
~David Hicks, Norms and Nobility: A Treatise on Education, p.13

 This is why the sort of education that is good for democracy is not the kind of education most democratic citizens want... It assumes that there is such a thing as objective wisdom, and that some possess it while others don't.  This is downright heresy in our culture, but I find it true, nevertheless.