John Dewey: “It will have its consummation when free social inquiry is indissolubly…”

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It will have its consummation when free social inquiry is indissolubly wedded to the art of full and moving communication.

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John Dewey

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Dewey believes that the resolution of public issues depends on the integration of social inquiry and communication.

More from John Dewey

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

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

That and that only gives reality to public opinion.

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

John Dewey: “It will have its consummation when free social inquiry is indissolubly wedded to the art of full and moving…”