Communication Quotes by John Dewey

Men live in a community in virtue of the things which they have in common; and communication is the way in which…

— John Dewey

No thought, no idea, can possibly be conveyed as an idea from one person to another. When it is told it is…

— John Dewey

Society exists through a process of transmission quite as much as biological life. This transmission occurs by means of communication of habits…

— John Dewey

There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and…

— John Dewey

There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.

— John Dewey

An undesirable society, in other words, is one which internally and externally sets up barriers to free intercourse and communication of experience.

— John Dewey

To be a recipient of a communication is to have an enlarged and changed experience. One shares in what another has thought…

— John Dewey

Everything which bars freedom and fullness of communication sets up barriers that divide human beings into sets and cliques, into antagonistic sects…

— John Dewey

Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.

— John Dewey

Consensus demands communication.

— John Dewey

Society not only continues to exist by transmission, by communication, but it may fairly be said to exist in transmission, in communication.

— John Dewey

Communication is a process of sharing experience till it becomes a common possession. It modifies the disposition of both the parties who…

— John Dewey

To be a recipient of a communication is to have an enlarged and changed experience.

— John Dewey

Not only is social life identical with communication, but all communication (and hence all genuine social life) is educative.

— John Dewey

The parts of a machine work with a maximum of cooperativeness for a common result, but they do not form a community.…

— John Dewey

Communication of science as subject-matter has so far outrun in education the construction of a scientific habit of mind that to some…

— John Dewey

Talk of democracy has little content when big business rules the life of the country through its control of the means of…

— John Dewey

Fundamental modes of speech, the bulk of the vocabulary, are formed in the ordinary intercourse of life, carried on not as a…

— John Dewey

Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.

— John Dewey

“Every art communicates because it expresses. It enables us to share vividly and deeply in meanings… For communication is not announcing things……

— John Dewey

Giving and taking of orders modifies actions and results, but does not of itself effect a sharing of purposes, a communication of…

— John Dewey

All communication is like art. It may fairly be said, therefore, that any social arrangement that remains vitally social, or vitally shared,…

— John Dewey