Independent self-reliant people would be a counterproductive anachronism in the collective society of the future where people will be defined by their associations.
John DeweyWithout the English, reason and philosophy would still be in the most despicable infancy in France.
John DeweyThe parts of a machine work with a maximum of cooperativeness for a common result, but they do not form a community. If, however, they were all cognizant of the common end and all interested in it so that they regulated their specific activity in view of it, then they would form a community. But this would involve communication. Each would have to know what the other was about and would have to have some way of keeping the other informed as to his own purpose and progress.
John DeweyWhat holds for adults holds even more for children, sensitive and conscious of differences. I certainly hope that the Board of Education will think very, very seriously before it introduces this division and antagonism in our public schools.
John Dewey