John Dewey quote about democracy from Democracy and Education - One of the fundamental problems of education in and for a democratic society is set by the conflict of a nationalistic and a wider social aim.
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One of the fundamental problems of education in and for a democratic society is set by the conflict of a nationalistic and a wider social aim.
 John Dewey, Democracy and Education (1916). copy citation

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Author John Dewey
Source Democracy and Education
Topic democracy education nationalism
Date 1916
Language English
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Weblink http://www.gutenberg.org/files/852/852-h/852-h.htm

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“All this reinforces the statement which opens this chapter: The conception of education as a social process and function has no definite meaning until we define the kind of society we have in mind. These considerations pave the way for our second conclusion. One of the fundamental problems of education in and for a democratic society is set by the conflict of a nationalistic and a wider social aim. The earlier cosmopolitan and "humanitarian" conception suffered both from vagueness and from lack of definite organs of execution and agencies of administration. In Europe, in the Continental states particularly, the new idea of the importance of education for human welfare and progress was captured by national interests and harnessed to do a work whose social aim was definitely narrow and exclusive.” source

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