In this article, the author talks about citizenship, which raises raises a question whether the good citizen is the one who fits in, the one who goes with the flow and is part of the whole, or whether the good citizen is the one who stands out from the crowd, the one who goes against the flow and bucks the trend, who is, in a sense, "out of order". The rise in political attention given to citizenship--something that has happened in many countries around the world over the past decades--can be seen as a response both to an alleged crisis in society and to an alleged crisis in democracy. In this essay the author explores the relationships between citizenship, democracy and learning in order to articulate a conception of civic learning that can respond to some of the challenges contemporary democratic societies are faced with. One of these challenges has to do with the decline of the public sphere, the decline of the very sphere where the experiment of democracy can be enacted. The author argues that one should not see this decline as the result of a lack in good citizenship. He believes that investment in the production of better citizens will not produce the kind of civic learning one needs. People do better to ask what opportunities exist for the enactment of the experiment of democracy. The author believes that democratic practices do indeed provide important learning opportunities, bearing in mind that one should not understand such learning opportunities in terms of socialisation but rather in terms of subjectification.