What [one] gets and gives as a human being, a being with desires, emotions, and ideas, is not external possessions, but a widening and deepening of conscious life—a more intense, disciplined, and expanding realization of meanings. . . . And education is not a mere means to such a life. Education is such a life. To maintain capacity for such a life is the essence of morals. For conscious life is a continual beginning afresh.

    by John Dewey     in Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education (New York: Macmillan, 1916), 359-60.

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