John Dewey: “Science is converted into knowledge in its honorable and emphatic sense only in application.”

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.

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

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

The problem of securing diffused and seminal intelligence can be solved only in the degree in which local communal life becomes a reality.