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I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.
John Dewey
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John Dewey
Age: 92 †
Born: 1859
Born: October 20
Died: 1952
Died: June 1
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By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.
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