Knowledge is humanistic in quality not because it is about human products in the past, but because of what it does in liberating human intelligence and human sympathy. Any subject matter which accomplishes this result is humane, and any subject matter which does not accomplish it is not even educational.


Dewey's dialectic (ed. 1971)

John Dewey Quotes

Knowledge is humanistic in quality not because it is about human products in the past, but because of what it does in liberating human intelligence...

Knowledge is humanistic in quality not because it is about human products in the past, but because of what it does in liberating human intelligence...

Knowledge is humanistic in quality not because it is about human products in the past, but because of what it does in liberating human intelligence...

Knowledge is humanistic in quality not because it is about human products in the past, but because of what it does in liberating human intelligence...