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Since A Democratic Society Repudiates The Principle Of External Authority, It Must Find A Substitute In Voluntary Disposition And Intere
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Since a democratic society repudiates the principle of external authority,
it must find a substitute in voluntary disposition and interest;
these can be created only by education.
-- John Dewey
Related:
In the broad and final sense all institutions are educational in the sense that they operate to form the attitudes, dispositions, abilities and disabilities that constitute a concrete personality.
..Whether this educative process is carried on in a predominantly democratic or non-democratic way becomes, therefore, a question of transcendent importance not only for education itself but for its final effect upon all the interests and activites of a society that is committed to the democratic way of life....
Authority is a poor substitute for leadership. -- John Luthe
Society's external rewards are no measure of true success.
True success can be measured only in relation to the goals one sets for oneself....
Art and reality are not two independant domains, external to one another, between which we can find only mechanical relationships.
On the contra- rary, we must understand that art is something completely real, completely material....
I know [patriotism] exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest.
But a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone....
We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts. -- John Dewey
Society can only pursue its normal course by means of a certain progression of changes.
-- John, Viscount Morley...
Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
-- Erich Fromm...