What accumulated knowledge exists in low grade societies is at least put into practice; it is transmuted into character; it exists with the depth of meaning that attaches to its coming within urgent daily interests.
John DeweyTo feel the meaning of what one is doing, and to rejoice in that meaning; to unite in one concurrent fact the unfolding of the inner life and the ordered development of material conditions--that is art.
John DeweyIf there is one conclusion to which human experience unmistakably points it is that democratic ends demand democratic methods for their realization.
John Dewey