John Dewey: “The conduct of these callings and others characteristic of our time…”

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The conduct of these callings and others characteristic of our time are decided by science and pseudo-science.

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John Dewey

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Dewey asserts that modern professions are increasingly governed by scientific principles rather than public input.

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Publication is partial and the public which results is partially informed and formed until the meanings it purveys pass from mouth to mouth.

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

We lie, as Emerson said, in the lap of an immense intelligence.

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

John Dewey: “The conduct of these callings and others characteristic of our time are decided by science and pseudo-science.”