John Dewey: “In fact, only too often this interest takes the form of endeavoring to…”

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In fact, only too often this interest takes the form of endeavoring to make the young believe and plan just as adults do.

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John Dewey

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Dewey critiques the tendency of adults to impose their beliefs on the young.

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We lie, as Emerson said, in the lap of an immense intelligence.

The problem of securing diffused and seminal intelligence can be solved only in the degree in which local communal life becomes a reality.

But the wingèd words of conversation in immediate intercourse have a vital import lacking in the fixed and frozen words of written speech.

That and that only gives reality to public opinion.

John Dewey: “In fact, only too often this interest takes the form of endeavoring to make the young believe and plan just as adults…”