FREEDOM & CULTURE
PIONEER’S WIDER SPHERE. Before we engage in too much pity for the inhabitants of our rural regions before the days of invention of modern devices for circulation of information, we should recall that they knew more about the things that affected their own lives than the city dweller of today is likely to know about the causes of his affairs, writes Professor John Dewey, the American thinker, in his book. “Freedom and Culture." The average person is surrounded today by readymade intellectual goods as he is bv ready-made foods. articles and all kinds of gadgets. He has not the personal share in making either intellectual or material goods that his pioneer ancestors had. Consequently they knew better what they themselves were about, although they knew infinitely less concerning what the world at largo was doing.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 July 1940, Page 3
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