John Dewey: “What is needed to direct and make fruitful social inquiry is a method which proceeds on the basis of the interrelations…”

If one wishes to realize the distance which may lie between “facts” and the meaning of facts, let one go to the field of social discussion.

The relationships of husband and wife, parent and children, older and younger children, friend and friend, are the bonds from which authority proceeds.

They are made that way; it is “the nature of the beast.” We do not gain anything by inserting instincts to run, creep, swim and fly between the structure and the act.

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.