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Dialogue With John Dewey

Q: Which has given you the greatest trouble?

A: Experience and Nature has given me the greatest trouble and the greatest satisfaction.

Q: Would you say that School and Society is your most original book?

A: Yes, in Education.

Q: Are not some of the greatest thinkers millenia ahead of their time?

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A: Yes.

Q: Which is more important, intelligence or the emotions?

A: It is like asking which leg is more important, the right or the left.

Q: Which plays the greater role in life, as it is lived today?

A: The emotions.

Q: Which should play the greater role in life?

A: (After considerable deliberation), they should be balanced.

Q: From your works such as I have studied your stress induction but not deduction. What provision would you make for deduction?

A: You will find deduction given importance in How to Think.

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