john dewey once said that long. >> art it the beauty parlor of civilization neither art of civilization are secure. it's a recognize that the federal government believed that art should and can enrich our lives. this project was taken out of the beauty parlor and put here ugly or usable and behalf. they've recognized the building art and it's through those those types of collaborations that are become into the arts collaboration. i hope this continues to grow our infrastructure. i take it my dreamy know from experience if we can do it with the courtyard we can do it with infrastructure like water and bridges can be built and reflect the best qualifies of american democracy. nancy pelosi said we should keep on building thanks or things that inspire and endure. thank you (clapping.) thank you cliff i'm sure everyone will agree it is a wonderful particulars. today you've heard about the objectives and goals but we wouldn't have been successful without the contractors i want to acknowledge the architects and the art and architecture design of cliff garden studio and the cliff management tha

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but i also think that we don't in america -- we are more into john wayne than john dewey. john wayne gets the headlines, not john dewey. you take a place like abc school district in southern l.a. county, even through austerity, it has done extraordinarily well. actually, that is how i got to the solution-driven unionism. they solve problems. and what they have done is they have done this through the transitions of a retiring superintendent and a retiring union president. so this has really become baked into their culture. we have talked about this story to you guys a lot, and nobody wants to write about it except in orange county. the same in terms of cincinnati, new haven. there are places -- montgomery county -- there are actually places where through thick and thin, when people have real respectful relationships with each other and they start thinking about how they solve problems rather than arguments, you see real collaboration and you see real working through a bunch of issues because teaching children is complicated. so arne duncan, i give him a lot of credit. he wan

think that we don't but i also think that we don't in america -- we are more into john wayne than john dewey. john wayne gets the headlines, not john dewey. you take a place like abc school district in southern l.a. county, even through austerity, it has done extraordinarily well. actually, that is how i got to the solution-driven unionism. they solve problems. and what they have done is they have done this through the transitions of a retiring superintendent and a retiring union president. so this has really become baked into their culture. we have hawked this story to you guys a lot, and nobody wants to write about it except in orange county. the same in terms of cincinnati, new haven. there are places -- montgomery county -- there are actually places where through thick and thin, when people have real respectful relationships with each other and they start thinking about how they solve problems rather than win arguments, you see real collaboration and you see real working through a bunch of issues because teaching children is complicated. so arne duncan, i give him a lot of credit. he wan

think that we don't but i also think that we don't in america -- we are more into john wayne than john dewey. john wayne gets the headlines, not john dewey. you take a place like abc school district in southern l.a. county, even through austerity, it has done extraordinarily well. actually, that is how i got to the solution-driven unionism. they solve problems. and what they have done is they have done this through the transitions of a retiring superintendent and a retiring union president. so this has really become baked into their culture. we have hawked this story to you guys a lot, and nobody wants to write about it except in orange county. the same in terms of cinnn

take for example the leading americans social philosopher of the 20th century, john dewey. his major concerns for democracy and education. pay attention to his ideas and his conception of the, illegitimate structures of coercion must be dismantled and that includes domination by business for private profit through private control thinking, land, industry, reinforced by command of the price, press agents, other means of publicity and propaganda. he recognized from his ilk quoting that power today resides in control of the means of production, exchange, publicity, transportation and communication. whoever owns them, was the life of the country, even if democratic forms remain. until these institutions are in the hands of the public, politics will remain the shadow cast by big business on society, very much what we see around us in fact. but it is important to do we went beyond calling for some form of public control that could take many forms. he went beyond a free and democratic society. he wrote that workers should be the masters of their own in estoril fee, not too was ren

ideal so take for example, the leading american is social philosopher of the 20th century, and john dewey concern was democracy with education but nobody took him to be an anarchist. pay attention to his ideas with his conception of democracy illegitimate structures of coercion must be dismantled and that includes a and i will quote him, domination by business for private profit through private control of banking, land, industry reinforced by the press or press agents or other means of publicity and propaganda. he recognized power today resides in the control of means of production exchange, publicity, a transportation and communication and whoever owns the rules the life of the country even if democratic forms remain and and tell these institutions are in the hands of the public it will be the shadow by big business on society of what we see around us but do we went beyond beyond control in a free and democratic society dewey road workers should be the masters of their own industrial fate not to will's rented by employers or directed by state authorities. that position goes right back to

. -- we think that we don't are more into john wayne than john dewey. southerna place like l.a.ounty. it has done extraordinarily well toause -- that is how i got solution driven unionism. they solve problems, not when arguments. they have done this through the transition of retiring superintendent and the retiring union president. cked to thised -- ho story to you a lot, but no one wants to write about it except in orange county. where whenlaces respect for relationships with each other and they start thinking about how they solve problems rather win when arguments -- arguments, you see real collaboration. teaching children is complicated. arnie duncan, i give him a lot of credit. every interested party has an interest in focusing on that. it has to be about not what the next doodad reform is, but how do we help students. it is too soond to talk about 2016. what is your focus for 2014? planentioned the war and plan.ren can this win elections outside massachusetts? when you pull the public on ,hings like education, jobs people want good jobs, people want the american jury. ant t

it's hard to realize that dewey dane was appointed by john f. kennedy as a member of the federal reserve board and that tells you something about the continuity and longevity of this institution. i think we are all proud of our experiences with it and i particularly want to thank dewe. like paul and ben i have been given five minutes to reflect on my career at the fed. the dates get more calculated at 16.2 seconds for each year of my tenure. thank you david. i chose to focus on one incident that while today is scarcely remembered was particularly riveting, a particularly riveting challenge that i and the federal market base within two months of my being sworn into office. the unprecedented 23% decline in the dow jones industrial average that occurred on black monday, october 19, 1987, the largest one-day drop ever. today, that market collapse is a distant memory of no ongoing interest because it had no visible lasting effect on the economy overall. but we did not know that at the time. in fact, the days that followed the crash were truly frighte