Doctrine that eliminates or ...

Doctrine that eliminates or even obscures the function of choice of values and enlistment of desires and emotions in behalf of those chosen weakens personal responsibility for judgment and for action. It thus helps create the attitudes that welcome and support the totalitarian state.
Doctrine that eliminates or even obscures the function of choice of values and enlistment of desires and emotions in behalf of those chosen weakens personal responsibility for judgment and for action. It thus helps create the attitudes that welcome and support the totalitarian state.
 John Dewey

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Arriving at one point is the starting point to another.
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 John Dewey
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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 John Dewey
Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.
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 John Dewey
Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.
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 John Dewey
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of the imagination.
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 John Dewey