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Food for Thought -- Democracy and Education"What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all of its children. Any other ideal for our schools is narrow and unlovely; acted upon it destroys our democracy...Only by being true to the full growth of all of the individuals who make it up, can society by any chance be true to itself. And in the self-direction thus given, nothing counts as much as the school, for, as Horace Mann said, "Where anything is growing, one former is worth a thousand re-formers." "(Dewey, 1900/1956, p. 7).Dewey, J. (1900/1956) The child and the curriculum/The school and society (combined edition). Chicago, Ill: The University of Chicago Press.
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