John Dewey: “What is applied and employed as the alternative to knowledge in…”

On the record

What is applied and employed as the alternative to knowledge in regulation of society is ignorance, prejudice, class-interest and accident.

Said by

John Dewey

Source

This quote critiques ignorance and prejudice as the alternatives to informed knowledge in societal regulation.

More from John Dewey

Signs and symbols, language, are the means of communication by which a fraternally shared experience is ushered in and sustained.

Publication is partial and the public which results is partially informed and formed until the meanings it purveys pass from mouth to mouth.

If the technological age can provide mankind with a firm and general basis of material security, it will be absorbed in a humane age.

Vision is a spectator; hearing is a participator.

John Dewey: “What is applied and employed as the alternative to knowledge in regulation of society is ignorance, prejudice…”