John Dewey Quotes
Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.
Dewey, John. "The Need of an Industrial Education in an Industrial Democracy." Manual Training and Vocational Education, vol. 17, no. 6, 1916, p. 412.
“Societies” were volunteer community associations formed for the purpose of monitoring the public officials and legislatures and recommending things. They would invite speakers and exchange political knowledge. They performed many of the functions that think tanks and local political parties do in modern times, but generally they were totally non-partisan—hence they were “disinterested”.
Her call for education for personal responsibility is a real shock to many conservatives who identify Mrs. Roosevelt with the liberal left. But she made this a basic component of her belief structure and the Roosevelt Administration in 1942—long before it ever became part of the conservative program.
John Dewey was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform. He was one of the most prominent American scholars in the first half of the twentieth century.
