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The words environment, medium denote something more than surroundings which encompass an individual. They denote the specific continuity of the surroundings with his own active tendencies.

The words "environment," "medium" denote something more than surroundings which encompass an individual. They denote the specific continuity of the surroundings with his own active tendencies.

John Dewey
Environment, Individual, Surroundings
John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.17, Courier Corporation

Some things which are remote in space and time from a living creature, especially a human creature, may form his environment even more truly than some of the things close to him.

John Dewey
Space, May, Environment
John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.17, Courier Corporation

The school has the function of coordinating within the disposition of each individual the diverse influences of the various social environments into which he enters.

John Dewey
School, Environment, Influence
John Dewey (1997). “Democracy And Education”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

An inanimate being is, of course, continuous with its surroundings; but the environing circumstances do not, save metaphorically, constitute an environment. For the inorganic being is not concerned in the influences which affect it.

John Dewey
Influence, Environment, Surroundings
John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.17, Courier Corporation

Just because life signifies not bare passive existence (supposing there is such a thing), but a way of acting, environment or medium signifies what enters into this activity as a sustaining or frustrating condition.

John Dewey
Acting, Way, Environment
John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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