Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.

Philosophers
John Dewey
American pragmatist philosopher and educator (1859-1952). Guided by learning by doing, he founded the Laboratory School at Chicago and made Democracy and Education (1916) the leading theory of progressive education.
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