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all sentimental and all moral considerations—it is the business of society as a whole today, to see to it that the environment is provided which will utilize all of the individual capital that is being born into it.” John Dewey, “Address to the National Negro Congress” (1909, MW 4: 157) 4/

not merely of school education but of that education which comes from vocation, from work responsibilities, from industrial and social responsibilities, and so on. It is therefore the responsibility of society as a whole, conceived from a strictly scientific standpoint leaving out 3/

Those individuals start practically today, where the members of the more favored race start again as individuals, and if they have more drawbacks to advance, they lie upon the side of their surrounding opportunities, the opportunities in education, 2/

“In other words, there is no ‘inferior race,’ and the members of a race so-called should each have the same opportunities of social environment and personality as those of a more favored race. 1/

are now in a state of conflict. Dependence upon the absolutist and totalitarian element involved in every form of anti-naturalism adds to the difficulty of this already extremely difficult undertaking.” John Dewey, “Anti-Naturalism in Extremis III” (1943, LW 15: 58-59) 2/

“The problem of attaining mutual understanding and a reasonable degree of amicable cooperation among different peoples, races, classes, is bound up with the problem of reaching by peaceful and democratic means some workable adjustment of the values, standards, and ends which 1/

We are thrilled to share the recently published special issue of the journal Philosophical Inquiry in Education, where six papers from last year's inaugural conference on "John Dewey and His Legacy for Education," celebrating the reopening of the Center for Dewey Studies, were featured.

Philosophical Inquiry in Education - The Journal of the Canadian Philosophy of Education Society

Philosophical Inquiry in Education is an international peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the unique and distinctive contribution that philosophical thinking can make to educational policy, research,...

Apply to the Center for Dewey Studies (CDS) Essay Award for a chance to win $5000 and an opportunity to work at the CDS and the Morris Library Special Collections Research Center. Deadline for submissions is October 10th, 2024. Available only to SIUC students. deweycenter.siu.edu/center-infor...

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Hence they are adopting and employing the same measures of dislike and hatred from which they have themselves suffered.” – John Dewey, “Racial Prejudice and Friction” (1922, MW 13:249) 3/