“ The something for which a man must be good is capacity to live as a social member so that what he gets from living with others balances with what he contributes. ”
John Dewey, Democracy and Education (1916). copy citation
Author | John Dewey |
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Source | Democracy and Education |
Topic | balance capacity |
Date | 1916 |
Language | English |
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Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/852/852-h/852-h.htm |
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“Discipline, natural development, culture, social efficiency, are moral traits—marks of a person who is a worthy member of that society which it is the business of education to further. There is an old saying to the effect that it is not enough for a man to be good; he must be good for something. The something for which a man must be good is capacity to live as a social member so that what he gets from living with others balances with what he contributes. What he gets and gives as a human being, a being with desires, emotions, and ideas, is not external possessions, but a widening and deepening of conscious life—a more intense, disciplined, and expanding realization of meanings.”
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