John Dewey: “And if they were competent after studying it, how many have the time to devote to it?”

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

Vision is a spectator; hearing is a participator.

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.

But the wingèd words of conversation in immediate intercourse have a vital import lacking in the fixed and frozen words of written speech.