John Dewey: “Ideals and standards formed without regard to the means by which they…”

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Ideals and standards formed without regard to the means by which they are to be achieved and incarnated in flesh are bound to be thin and wavering.

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John Dewey

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Dewey warns that ideals must be grounded in practical means to be effective.

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But it indicates where the problem resides, whatever guise it assumes.

In short, private acts may be socially valuable both by indirect consequences and by direct intention.

In this distinction we find the germ of the distinction between the private and the public.

They are reflections into the singular human being of customs and institutions; they are not natural, that is, “native,” organic propensities.

John Dewey: “Ideals and standards formed without regard to the means by which they are to be achieved and incarnated in flesh are…”