But systematic expenditure of public funds for scientific inquiry into the conditions which affect the mental and moral development of children is just beginning, and demands for a large increase in this direction are looked upon askance.
Dewey critiques the lack of investment in understanding children's mental and moral development.
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We lie, as Emerson said, in the lap of an immense intelligence.
Publication is partial and the public which results is partially informed and formed until the meanings it purveys pass from mouth to mouth.
If the technological age can provide mankind with a firm and general basis of material security, it will be absorbed in a humane age.
Systematic and continuous inquiry into all the conditions which affect association and their dissemination in print is a precondition of the creation of a true public.