These considerations suggest a brief discussion of the effect of the present absolutistic logic upon the method and aims of education, not just in the sense of schooling but with respect to all the ways in which communities attempt to shape the disposition and beliefs of their members.
Dewey discusses how absolutistic logic influences educational methods and community beliefs.
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Extensive, enduring, intricate and serious indirect consequences of the conjoint activity of a comparatively few persons traverse the globe.
But he does so only at the cost of repression of those of his potentialities which can be realized only through membership in other groups.
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