A culture that permits science to destroy traditional values but which distrusts its power to create new ones is a culture which is destroying itself. - John Dewey

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A culture that permits science to destroy traditional values but which distrusts its power to create new ones is a culture which is destroying itself.

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About John Dewey

John Dewey (October 20 1859 – June 1 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer. A major figure in the Pragmatist school of American philosophy, his work has been influential in a wide range of fields.

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Professed scientific philosophers have been wont to employ the remoter and refinished products of science in ways which deny, discount or pervert the obvious and immediate facts of gross experience, unmindful that thereby philosophy itself commits suicide.

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