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Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential poin

Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment. – John Dewey

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Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis. – John Dewey

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