Excerpt from Land and Freedom For if Dewey's idea, Dewey's process, mean anything at all they are identified with the notion that democracy is the growth Of popular enlightenment, not a form of popular rule. Understanding, in this view (i avail myself of the phrases of a recent commentator who happens to be, and not by accident, a socio-ethical economist), is more important than authority. Thus democracy can be identified with education in the broad sense as a process for achieving this popular understanding. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.