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The social situation has been so changed by the factors of an industrial age that traditional general principles have little practical meaning.
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John Dewey
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gutenberg.orgJohn Dewey: “The social situation has been so changed by the factors of an industrial age that traditional general principles have…”
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Dewey argues that the complexities of modern industrial society render traditional principles less applicable to real-world situations.
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