Modern life means democracy, democracy means freeing intelligence for independent effectiveness—the emancipation of mind as an individual organ to do its own work. We naturally associate democracy, to be sure, with freedom of action, but freedom of action without freed capacity of thought behind it is only chaos.
Published on May 18, 2016 , under Quotes
Love It 0Source: John Dewey, “Democracy in Education,” John Dewey, The Middle Works, 1899–1924, ed. Jo Ann Boydston, vol. 3, page 229 (1977). First published in The Elementary School Teacher, December 1903.
