In this column, the author presents an excerpt from the President's Address to the 35th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Education Association (CEA), September 1958, Victoria. In his address, the CEA president talks about how the world pressures are building up in the form of demands for more and better education; and these demands are rising from the people. He thinks that everyone should question democracy as they practice it, because it is their practice and not their theory that has reality to those peoples who are making a choice. Schools must always be, to some extent, the reflection of their day and age, and there are those who feel that, beginning with the Industrial Revolution, the society has become increasingly materialistic and security-seeking. He opines that schools and colleges must encourage humanitarian thinking. He asks teachers if its possible for them to teach children the true meaning of democracy as effectively as the Russians have taught communism to theirs.