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Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.

Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.

John Dewey

Democracies Have, Democracy, Generations

John Dewey (1980). “The Middle Works, 1899-1924”, p.139, SIU Press

The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education — or that the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth.

John Dewey

Democracies Have, Goal, Democracy

"Democracy and Education".

Democracy means the belief that humanistic culture should prevail.

John Dewey

Mean, Democracy, Culture

John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Steven M. Cahn (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938-1939”, p.151, SIU Press

Everything which bars freedom and fullness of communication sets up barriers that divide human beings into sets and cliques, into antagonistic sects and factions, and thereby undermines the democratic way of life.

John Dewey

Communication, Democracy, Bars

John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston (1988). “The Later Works, 1925-1953”, p.227, SIU Press

Democracy is a form of government only because it is a form of moral and spiritual association.

John Dewey

Spiritual, Government, Democracy

John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston (2008). “The Early Works, 1882-1898: 1882-1888. Early essays and Leibniz's new essays concerning the human understanding”, p.240, SIU Press

A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience.

John Dewey

Government, Democracy, Form

John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Sidney Hook (2008). “The Middle Works of John Dewey, 1899-1924, Volume 9: 1916, Democracy and Education”, p.93, SIU Press

We have advanced far enough to say that democracy is a way of life. We have yet to realize that it is a way of personal life and one which provides a moral standard for personal conduct.

John Dewey

Democracy, Way, Moral

John Dewey, Debra Morris, Ian Shapiro (1993). “The Political Writings”, p.229, Hackett Publishing

The method of democracy is to bring conflicts out into the open where their special claims can be seen and appraised, where they can be discussed and judged.

John Dewey

Democracy, Special, Conflict

John Dewey, Debra Morris, Ian Shapiro (1993). “The Political Writings”, p.148, Hackett Publishing

Democracy is a way of life controlled by a working faith in the possibilities of human nature. . . . This faith may be enacted in statutes, but it is only on paper unless it is put in force in the attitudes which human beings display to one another in all the incidents and relations of daily life.

John Dewey

Attitude, Democracy, Paper

John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston (1988). “The Later Works, 1925-1953”, p.226, SIU Press

As believers in democracy we have not only the right but the duty to question existing mechanisms of, say, suffrage and to inquire whether some functional organization would not serve to formulate and manifest public opinion better than the existing methods. It is not irrelevant to the point that a score of passages could be cited in which Jefferson refers to the American Government as an experiment.

John Dewey

Government, Organization, Democracy

John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Steven M. Cahn (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938-1939”, p.175, SIU Press