Nussbaum, Martha Craven ” Not for profit : why democracy needs the humanities"

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[H]istory has come to a stage when the moral man,the complete man, is more and more giving way, almost without knowing it, to make room for the . . .commercial man, the man of limited purpose.This process, aided by the wonderful progress in science, is assuming gigantic proportion and power, causing the upset of man’s moral balance, obscuring his human side under the shadow of soul-less organization.
                                                   —Rabindranath Tagore, Nationalism, 1917

Achievement comes to denote the sort of thing that a well-planned machine can do better than a human being can, and the main effect of education, the achieving of a life of rich significance, drops by the wayside.
                                           —John Dewey, Democracy and Education, 1915