What actually happens in consequence of industrial forces is dependent upon the presence or absence of perception and communication of consequences, upon foresight and its effect upon desire and endeavor.
John Dewey
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John Dewey was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer. He was one of the most prominent American scholars in the first half of the twentieth century.
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They do not cease to operate because we refuse to note them, or because we smear them over with sentimental idealizations.
It is silly and futile to ignore and deny economic facts.
This is the meaning of the statement that the problem is a moral one dependent upon intelligence and education.
By contrast it indicates the nature of the only possible solution: the perfecting of the means and ways of communication of meanings so that genuinely shared interest in the consequences of interdependent activities may inform desire and…
It manifests itself more subtly, pervasively and effectually when knowledge and the instrumentalities of skill which are the product of communal life are employed in the service of wants and impulses which have not themselves been modified…
It shows itself wherever the method obtains of attaining results by use of force instead of by the method of communication and enlightenment.
To learn in a human way and to human effect is not just to acquire added skill through refinement of original capacities.
Everything which is distinctively human is learned, not native, even though it could not be learned without native structures which mark man off from other animals.
The young have to be brought within the traditions, outlook and interests which characterize a community by means of education: by unremitting instruction and by learning in connection with the phenomena of overt association.
We are born organic beings associated with others, but we are not born members of a community.
At any given time, it sets a problem rather than marks a settled achievement.