John Dewey: “The increase in the number, variety and cheapness of amusements represents a powerful diversion from political concern.”

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.

Signs and symbols, language, are the means of communication by which a fraternally shared experience is ushered in and sustained.

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