In all education the main cause of failure is staleness.

There is only one subject matter for education, and that is Life in all its manifestations

As society is now constituted, a literal adherence to the moral precepts scattered throughout the Gospels would mean sudden death.

Life is the enjoyment of emotion, derived from the past and aimed at the future.

The main importance of Francis Bacon's influence does not lie in any peculiar theory of inductive reasoning which he happened to express, but in the revolt against second-hand information of which he was a leader.

Every intellectual revolution which has ever stirred humanity into greatness has been a passionate protest against inert ideas. Then, alas, with pathetic ignorance of human psychology, it has proceeded by some educational scheme to bind humanity afresh with inert ideas of its own fashioning.

No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.