Seeds are sown, not by virtue of being thrown out at random, but by being so distributed as to take root and have a chance of growth.
John Dewey: “Seeds are sown, not by virtue of being thrown out at random, but by being so distributed as to take root and have a…”
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Dewey uses the metaphor of seeds to illustrate the importance of intentional knowledge distribution.
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Signs and symbols, language, are the means of communication by which a fraternally shared experience is ushered in and sustained.
Competition will continue, but it will be less rivalry for acquisition of material goods, and more an emulation of local groups to enrich direct experience with appreciatively enjoyed intellectual and artistic wealth.
Ideas which are not communicated, shared, and reborn in expression are but soliloquy, and soliloquy is but broken and imperfect thought.
But the wingèd words of conversation in immediate intercourse have a vital import lacking in the fixed and frozen words of written speech.