For in spite of itself any movement that thinks and acts in terms of an โism becomes so involved in reaction against other โisms that it is unwittingly controlled by them. For it then forms its principles by reaction against them instead of by a comprehensive, constructive survey of actual needs, problems, and possibilities.
John DeweyIndependent self-reliant people would be a counterproductive anachronism in the collective society of the future where people will be defined by their associations.
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 Dewey