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During the 1930s philosopher John Dewey remained the foremost educational commentator in the United States. Although his writings were usually complex and difficult, his ability to frame educational issues precisely made him a valued contributor to journals of opinion such as The Nation, The New Republic, and Social Frontier. In 1930 he made the following comparison between war and education:
How often in the past have we depended upon war to bring out the supreme loyalties of mankind. Its life and death struggles are obvious and dramatic; its results in changing the course of history are evident and striking. When shall we realize that in every school-building in the land a struggle is also being waged against all that hems in and distorts human life? The struggle is not with arms and violence; its consequences cannot be recorded in statistics of...
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