“若要官,杀人放火受招安” 五四期间访问中国的杜威,对这块急剧变动的古老的土地,以及生活和斗争于其上的知识界同行充满了礼赞之情。一九一九年六月,他在给女儿的信中写道:“一位曾对五十种学生报纸作过仔细研究的朋友说,这些报纸的第一个特点是有大量的问号,第二个特点是要求言论自由,以便能够找出这些问题的答案。在一个信仰既定权威的教条、又是使人感觉满足的国家里,这种提出疑问的热潮,预示着一个新时代的到来。” “If officials want to kill someone, they should be comforted.” Dewey, who visited China during the May Fourth Movement, is full of praise for this rapidly changing ancient land, as well as for his life and the intelligentsia who fight against him. In June 1919, in his letter to his daughter, he wrote: “A friend who studied carefully about fifty student newspapers said that the first feature of these newspapers was the large number of question marks, Two features call for freedom of expression in order to be able to find the answers to these questions, a booming doubt that signals a new era in a dogma of established authority and a source of satisfaction. ”