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Democracy without raising the sanity waterline first is pretty much as useless a form of government as any other we've had so far. It's not really much in the way of "progress". In fact, I'd wager to say that no form of government can be that great without a decent baseline sanity level.
This is what has been attempted by the Ferry laws in France. The high rates of atheists and agnostics in France are a consequence of these laws, which made education mandatory and reduced the influence of the Catholic church on education.
However, I do not think it raised the sanity line in other domains, and it had bizarre effects, such as an important part of the population which say they belong to a religion but do not believe in any god.