John Dewey: “All merely physical knowledge is technical, couched in a technical vocabulary communicable only to the few.”

Publication is partial and the public which results is partially informed and formed until the meanings it purveys pass from mouth to mouth.

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.

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