When a school introduces and trains each child of society into members…

John Dewey
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When a school introduces and trains each child of society into membership within such a little community, saturating him with the spirit of service, and providing him with the instruments of effective self-direction, we shall have the deepest and best guaranty of a larger society which is worthy, lovely, and harmonious ✨ John Dewey (2013). The School and Society and The Child and the Curriculum, p.29, University of Chicago Press
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