John Dewey: “It is true that all valuable as well as new ideas begin with…”

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It is true that all valuable as well as new ideas begin with minorities, perhaps a minority of one.

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John Dewey

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Dewey asserts that new and valuable ideas often originate from minorities, emphasizing their role in societal progress.

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

Signs and symbols, language, are the means of communication by which a fraternally shared experience is ushered in and sustained.

Ideas which are not communicated, shared, and reborn in expression are but soliloquy, and soliloquy is but broken and imperfect thought.

That and that only gives reality to public opinion.

John Dewey: “It is true that all valuable as well as new ideas begin with minorities, perhaps a minority of one.”