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Independent self-reliant people would be a counterproductive anachronism in the collective society of the future where people will be defined by their associations.
John Dewey
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John Dewey
Age: 92 †
Born: 1859
Born: October 20
Died: 1952
Died: June 1
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Forty years spent in wandering in a wilderness like that of the present is not a sad fate - unless one attempts to make himself believe that the wilderness is after all itself the promised land.
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Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
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The intimation never wholly deserts us that there is, in the unformed activities of childhood and youth, the possibilities of a better life for the community as well as for individuals here and there. This dim sense is the ground of our abiding idealization of childhood.
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An education could be given which would sift individuals, discovering what they were good for, and supplying a method of assigning each to the work in life for which his nature fits him.
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Instruction is important.
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The school has the function of coordinating within the disposition of each individual the diverse influences of the various social environments into which he enters.
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Communication is a process of sharing experience till it becomes a common possession. It modifies the disposition of both the parties who partake in it.
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