John Dewey writes in The Public & its Problems:
To learn to be human is to develop through the give and take of communication an effective sense of being an individually distinctive member of a community; one who understands and appreciates its beliefs, desires and methods, and who contributes to a further conversion of organic powers into human resources and values. (p. 154)
In today’s always-on society, we have lost the art of the give-and-take of communication. Instead,
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