John Dewey: “But the inquiry which alone can furnish knowledge as a precondition of…”

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But the inquiry which alone can furnish knowledge as a precondition of public judgments must be contemporary and quotidian.

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John Dewey

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Dewey emphasizes that effective public knowledge must be based on contemporary and daily inquiry.

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We lie, as Emerson said, in the lap of an immense intelligence.

Vision is a spectator; hearing is a participator.

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

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

John Dewey: “But the inquiry which alone can furnish knowledge as a precondition of public judgments must be contemporary and…”