Every care would be taken to surround the young with the physical and social conditions which best conduce, as far as freed knowledge extends, to release of personal potentialities.
John Dewey: “Every care would be taken to surround the young with the physical and social conditions which best conduce, as far as…”
Editor's note · Context
Dewey highlights the importance of creating optimal conditions for youth to realize their potential.
Share
More from John Dewey
But in this respect he does not differ from those explicitly designated public officials who have also been known to betray the interest committed to them instead of faithfully representing it.
The easiest way out was to go back to the naked individual, to sweep away all associations as foreign to his nature and rights save as they proceeded from his own voluntary choice, and guaranteed his own private ends.
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.
Freedom presented itself as an end in itself, though it signified in fact liberation from oppression and tradition.