John Dewey: “To form itself, the public has to break existing political forms.”

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To form itself, the public has to break existing political forms.

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John Dewey

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This statement reflects Dewey's view that the formation of a public requires a break from existing political structures.

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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.

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

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