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It is the office of the school environment to balance the various elements in the social environment, and to see to it that each individual gets an opportunity to escape from the limitations of the social group in which

It is the office of the school environment to balance the various elements in the social environment, and to see to it that each individual gets an opportunity to escape from the limitations of the social group in which he was born, and to come into living contact with a broader environment.

John Dewey
School, Opportunity, Office
John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.25, Courier Corporation

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.

John Dewey
Happiness, Work, Opportunity
John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education”, p.311, Sheba Blake Publishing

In order to have a large number of values in common, all the members of the group must have an equable opportunity, to receive and to take from others. There must be a large variety of shared undertakings and experiences. Otherwise, the influences which educate some into masters, educates others into slaves.

John Dewey
Opportunity, Order, Numbers
"Democracy and Education". Book by John Dewey, 1916.

What, after all, is the public under present conditions? What are the reasons for its eclipse? What hinders it from finding and identifying itself? By what means shall its inchoate and amorphous estate be organized into effective political action relevant to present social needs and opportunities? What has happened to the public in the century and a half since the theory of political democracy was urged with such assurance and hope?

John Dewey
Mean, Opportunity, Political

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