Aspiration Toward the Good & Valuable by Larry HickmanThe Director of the Center for Dewey Studies and Professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University remarked, "Dr. Ikeda surely got Dewey right during his Harvard lecture when he said that “the religious” for Dewey is not a specific external power but rather “that which supports and encourages people in active aspiration toward the good and valuable.” That is precisely what education and religion do when they function at their best."