They are fortunate who get as far as a sympathetic appreciation of the methods which give pattern to the complicated apparatus: methods of analytic, experimental observation, mathematical formulation and deduction, constant and elaborate check and test.
Dewey emphasizes the importance of understanding scientific methods for a deeper appreciation of technology.
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Signs and symbols, language, are the means of communication by which a fraternally shared experience is ushered in and sustained.
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.
The problem of securing diffused and seminal intelligence can be solved only in the degree in which local communal life becomes a reality.