...rather than being blinded by or blind to it. For Dewey, these values are those that define a society: a number of people held together because they are...of thought and growing unity of sympathetic feeling (Ml, 10). We may see here, as well, a second important epistemological foundation for Peters' (1981a,...

...of potential incoherence or harmony in one's way of living (Ratner, 408} and thinking of society as "a number of people held together because they are...common spirit, and with reference to common aims" (Ml, 10), we find two key values emerging: habits of service and healthy growth. Both of these values...

...was consciously reacting against the deadening effects of scientific management when he argued that "a society is a number of people held together because...working along common lines, in a common spirit, and with references to common ends".1^ At the time he was writing, communities were being pulled apart by economic...

...of others in storing up, in accumulating, the maximum of information. (Dewey, 1915/1990, p. 15) and, A society is a number of people held together because...spirit, and with reference to common aims. The common ends and aims demand a growing interchange of thought and growing unity of sympathetic feeling. The...

...all parents want for their own children.81 His definition of society supports a cooperative model. "Society is a number of people held together because...common spirit, and with reference to common aims." Consequently, school should be a "miniature community, an embryonic society," which aims at developing...