Carolina QuotesThe survival and development of democracy depends not so much on the development of democratic ideals which are wide-spread and strong. Today, more than ever before, democracy depends upon the development of efficient forms of democratic social management and upon the spreading of the skill in such management to the common man.
Kurt Zadek Lewin Connected to the Carolinas
Source
p. 153.
- work
- Frontiers in group dynamics II, 1947
- year
- 1947
- locator
- p. 153
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