Teaching advanced college students in the faculty of philosophy, one can observe that they reflect on democracy at a sophistic level (Rosen calls this phenomena overprofessionalization). At the same time, most of these students have never been in the middle of a real democratic discussion. All cognitive competencies need to be developed by practicing them repeatedly. Democracy is an advanced personal, interpersonal, and social competence, not only a political framework and constitution. Lind once established the concept of democratic personality. I would like to illustrate this concept by my own discursive experiences with democratic education.

Teaching advanced college students in the faculty of philosophy, one can observe that they reflect on democracy at a sophistic level (Rosen calls this phenomena overprofessionalization). At the same time, most of these students have never been in the middle of a real democratic discussion. All cognitive competencies need to be developed by practicing them repeatedly. Democracy is an advanced personal, interpersonal, and social competence, not only a political framework and constitution. Lind once established the concept of democratic personality. I would like to illustrate this concept by my own discursive experiences with democratic education.