In Favor of Democracy

Mr. Davis raised the point today in class about who should be capable of choosing rulers. He stated in so many words “wouldn’t it make the most sense for your teachers (K-12) to chose who was capable based on their ability learn?” Keep in mind; I do not know if this is his personal view but Mr. Davis or one that he stated merely for the purpose of debate. Unfortunately the subject changed before I was able to off a relevant rebuttal, but I would like to say that I disagree. As Mr. Davis would pointed out the argument is hard to make in our society because teachers have been appointed by politicians that have potential to be corrupt, and frankly it is a statistic that many teachers of K-12 made only average grades and scored relatively poor on test when they themselves were going through school, but lets take away the variables and lets imagine teachers are proficient in their jobs which I personally feel most are. Also lets shrink the size of our society for this scenario to say the size of a classroom. Would not better to have more than one person making a decision about who should rule considering first that everyone has live with this all-important decision second people might have different views of the same person based on personal experience with said person? For instance, maybe a boy is capable of impressing his teacher with his grades and appears to his teacher to be both virtuous and capable, but others in the class (his peers) notice things that the teacher does not like say the fact that he treats his classmates cruelly when the teacher is not looking. Essentially this how view democracy, many eyes keeping each other in check and agreeing on laws so that there is not chaos. Which to me seems to away from Socrates’ “myth of the metals” to a large extent.