"The school has the function also of coordinating within the disposition of each individual the diverse
influences of the various social environments into which he enters. One code prevails in the family;
another, on the street; a third, in the workshop or store; a fourth, in the religious association. As a
person passes from one of the environments to another, he is subjected to antagonistic pulls, and is in
danger of being split into a being having different standards of judgment and emotion for different
occasions. This danger imposes upon the school a steadying and integrating office."
(Dewey)
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