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The Early Works, 1882-1898: 1895-1898. Early essays

Book by John Dewey · 5 quotes · Believe, I Believe, School

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“I believe that the community's duty to education is, therefore, its paramount moral duty. By law and punishment, by social agitation and discussion, society can regulate and form itself in a more or less haphazard and chance way. But through education society can formulate its own purposes, can organize its own means and resources, and thus shape itself with definiteness and economy in the direction in which it wishes to move.”