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“A progressive society counts individual variations as precious since it finds in them the means of its own growth.”
- Source
- Democracy and Education
- Date
- 1916
Meaning of “A progressive society counts individual variations as precious…”
Dewey argues that a democratic society benefits from individual variation rather than treating conformity as the educational ideal, because difference supplies possibilities for collective growth.
Where does it come from?
Democracy and Education (1916), Chapter XXII, “The Individual and the World.” Dewey argues that a progressive democratic society should value individual variations because intellectual diversity supplies means of social growth. Verified against Project Gutenberg #852 and the scan-backed Wikisource Chapter XXII transcription. This remains educational and democratic philosophy rather than an experimentally established claim that diversity automatically produces progress.
