John Dewey: “How can a public be organized, we may ask, when literally it does not stay in place?”

The problem of securing diffused and seminal intelligence can be solved only in the degree in which local communal life becomes a reality.

Ideas which are not communicated, shared, and reborn in expression are but soliloquy, and soliloquy is but broken and imperfect thought.

Vision is a spectator; hearing is a participator.

But the wingèd words of conversation in immediate intercourse have a vital import lacking in the fixed and frozen words of written speech.