John Dewey: “No man and no mind was ever emancipated merely by being left alone.”

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

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

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.

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