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“But the individual butterfly or earthquake remains just the unique existence which it is. We forget in explaining its occurrence that it is only the occurrence that is explained, not the thing itself.”

Quote by John Dewey

Book:The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1939-1941

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The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1939-1941

This volume includes a selection of the author's writings from the years 1939 to 1941, reflecting the author's evolution and literary techniques during this significant period. more

Author

John Dewey was an American philosopher and educator, born on October 20, 1859, and died on June 1, 1952. He was a leading figure in the philosophy of pragmatism and had a profound impact on 20th-century education, philosophy, and the social sciences. more

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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.”

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“Knowledge is no longer an immobile solid; it has been liquefied. it is actively moving in all the currents of society itself”

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Book:The School and Society

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“When a school introduces and trains each child of society into membership within such a little community, saturating him with the spirit of service, and providing him with the instruments of effective self-direction, we shall have the deepest and best guaranty of a larger society which is worthy, lovely, and harmonious”

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Book:The School and Society and The Child and the Curriculum

Source: The School and Society and The Child and the Curriculum

“Why should the wealth of the country be stored in banks and elevators while the idle workman wanders homeless about the streets and the idle loafers who hoard the gold only to spend it on riotous living are rolling about in fine carriages from which they look out on peaceful meetings and call them riots?”

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Author:Samuel Gompers

“Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.”

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“There may be here and there a worker who for certain reasons unexplainable to us does not join a union of labor. That is his right. It is his legal right, no matter how morally wrong he may be. It is his legal right, and no one can or dare question his exercise of that legal right.”

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Book:The American Federationist

Source: The American Federationist

“Workingmen are at the foundation of society. Show me that product of human endeavor in the making of which the workingman has had no share, and I will show you something that society can well dispense with.”

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“Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.”

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Book:Fatherhood

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“All other holidays are in a more or less degree connected with conflicts and battles of man's prowess over man, of strife and discord for greed and power, of glories achieved by one nation over another. Labor Dayis devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race, or nation.”

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