DEMOCRATIC CITIZENSHIP BETWEEN THE MODERN STRATEGY OF LEARNING AND ANCIENT EXPERIENCE

Education for democratic citizenship, within the conditions of democracy, should occupy a more decisive role in the school system. Modern strategies of learning and teaching should not exclude ancient experiences and roots. In democratic conditions, which retain ties to the ancient ones, oratory is an important factor of political life. This is precisely why the art of speaking can be relocated to the centre of attention. The importance of political speech, in the broadest sense of the word, is identical to that in Greek citystates. The teachings of Aristotle and Quintilian show how nothing has changed significantly during the last century and the millennium, at least when we speak of the human spirit and man's most basic skill. It is therefore possible to draw ties between education for the democratic citizenship and rhetoric, in the positive sense. Basic democratic values and tolerance can be best developed through discussion and persuasion, and not through simply learning the formal foundations of a democratic organisation. In this work we will depict that the strategy of learning, in terms of democratic citizenship and history, which are tightly bound, is in fact the strategy of selection, just as it is in the case of oratory education.