John Dewey: “Ideals and standards formed without regard to the means by which they…”

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Ideals and standards formed without regard to the means by which they are to be achieved and incarnated in flesh are bound to be thin and wavering.

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John Dewey

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Dewey warns that ideals must be grounded in practical means to be effective.

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That the state should be to some a deity and to others a devil is another evidence of the defects of the premises from which discussion sets out.

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John Dewey: “Ideals and standards formed without regard to the means by which they are to be achieved and incarnated in flesh are…”