∗how life renews itself through the young we teach

Life is a self-renewing process through action upon the environment.

A living being is one that subjugates and controls for its own continued…

Education, in its broadest sense, is the means of this social continuity…

Beliefs and aspirations cannot be physically extracted and inserted.

∗Dewey's prose moves from biological metaphor to social philosophy, arguing that education is not a school-based institution but the fundamental means by which societies transmit their accumulated knowledge across generations.

Education as society's self-renewal through transmission of knowledge and culture to the immature.