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Modern life means democracy, democracy means freeing intelligence for independent effectivenessthe emancipation of mind as an individual organ to do its own work. We naturally associate democracy, to be sure, with freedom of action, but freedom of action without freed capacity of thought behind it is only chaos.   Dewey, John

Source: JOHN DEWEY, Democracy in Education, John Dewey, The Middle Works, 18991924, ed. Jo Ann Boydston, vol. 3, p. 229 . First published in The Elementary School Teacher, December 1903. · This quote is about uncategorised · Search on Google Books to find all references and sources for this quotation.


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John Dewey (October 20, 1859 June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer, whose thought has been greatly influential in the United States and around the world. He is recognized as one of the founders of the philosophical school of Pragmatism (along with Charles Sanders Peirce, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and William James), a pioneer in functional psychology, and a leading representative of the progressive movement in U.S. education during the first half of the 20th century.

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