DEMOCRATIC APPROACH TO SECONDARY SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION
Democratic approach to administration is fundamental to the effectiveness of principals in Nigerian Secondary education system. This is because principals as the administrators of schools have same authority. How they use this authority makes the difference between or among them. Ndu, Ocho and Okeke (1992), noted that organizational goals may not be achieved if the administrator becomes undemocratic in his administration. The principal is expected to personify the values of the school and exercise some kind of wisdom and moral leadership. A principal with leadership qualities in the words of Obemeata (1984), should:

…be able to instruct without ordering, correct without nagging, be firm and fair, understand without being gullible, persuade without insisting, ask without demanding, be light hearted without levity, change his mind without vacillation, compromise without retreating and lead opinion without dictating his will…. (Obemeata, 1984:58).

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I have not gone to the link, is it elaborating on the democratic leasdership or it advocates putting in place democratic system of administering the schools? expecting some one to be democratic from his own interests is expecting too much from him.