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John Dewey: “The highest and most difficult kind of inquiry and a subtle, delicate, vivid and responsive art of communication must…”

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The highest and most difficult kind of inquiry and a subtle, delicate, vivid and responsive art of communication must take possession of the physical machinery of transmission and circulation and breathe life into it.
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John Dewey

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Dewey discusses the need for effective communication in the age of technology.

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