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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The way our group or class does things tends to determine the proper objects of attention, and thus to prescribe the directions and limits of observation and memory. What is strange or foreign (that is to say outside the activities of the groups) tends to be morally forbidden and intellectually suspect.

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