But systematic expenditure of public funds for scientific inquiry into the conditions which affect the mental and moral development of children is just beginning, and demands for a large increase in this direction are looked upon askance.
Dewey critiques the lack of investment in understanding children's mental and moral development.
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Freedom presented itself as an end in itself, though it signified in fact liberation from oppression and tradition.
In other words, every officer of the public, whether he represents it as a voter or as a stated official, has a dual capacity.
There are even those who hold that the presumption is always that social loss will result from agents of the public doing anything which could be done by persons in their private capacity.
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