Intelligence in the Modern World Quotes

“have not some religions, including the most influential forms of Christianity, taught that the heart of man is totally corrupt? How could the course of religion in its entire sweep not be marked by practices that are shameful in their cruelty and lustfulness, and by beliefs that are degraded and intellectually incredible? What else than what we can find could be expected, in the case of people having little knowledge and no secure method of knowing; with primitive institutions, and with so little control of natural forces that they lived in a constant state of fear?”
― John Dewey, Intelligence in the Modern World

“The ultimate problem of production is the production of human beings. To this end, the production of goods is intermediate and auxiliary. ..... The means have to be implemented by a social-economic system that establishes and uses the means for the production of free human beings associating with one another
on terms of equality. Then and then only will these means be an integral part of the end, not frustrated and self-defeating, bringing new evils and generating new problems.”
― John Dewey, Intelligence in the Modern World