But their expertness is not shown in framing and executing policies, but in discovering and making known the facts upon which the former depend.
John Dewey: “But their expertness is not shown in framing and executing policies, but in discovering and making known the facts upon…”
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Dewey clarifies that experts should focus on uncovering facts rather than solely on policy-making.
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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.
The problem of securing diffused and seminal intelligence can be solved only in the degree in which local communal life becomes a reality.
Competition will continue, but it will be less rivalry for acquisition of material goods, and more an emulation of local groups to enrich direct experience with appreciatively enjoyed intellectual and artistic wealth.
Ideas which are not communicated, shared, and reborn in expression are but soliloquy, and soliloquy is but broken and imperfect thought.