John Dewey: “The backwardness of social knowledge is marked in its division into independent and insulated branches of learning.”

In other words, every officer of the public, whether he represents it as a voter or as a stated official, has a dual capacity.

The invasion of the community by the new and relatively impersonal and mechanical modes of combined human behavior is the outstanding fact of modern life.

For the older symbols of ideal life still engage thought and command loyalty.

But in this respect he does not differ from those explicitly designated public officials who have also been known to betray the interest committed to them instead of faithfully representing it.