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The new conditions involved a release of human potentialities previously dormant.
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John Dewey
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gutenberg.orgThe new conditions involved a release of human potentialities previously dormant.
Dewey highlights the emergence of human potential in new conditions.
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The problem of securing diffused and seminal intelligence can be solved only in the degree in which local communal life becomes a reality.
If the technological age can provide mankind with a firm and general basis of material security, it will be absorbed in a humane age.
Competition will continue, but it will be less rivalry for acquisition of material goods, and more an emulation of local groups to enrich direct experience with appreciatively enjoyed intellectual and artistic wealth.
Signs and symbols, language, are the means of communication by which a fraternally shared experience is ushered in and sustained.