Education which is not modern share the fate of all organic things which are kept too long.

Dogmatism is the anti-Christ of learning.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be embalmed alive. The more prolonged the halt in some unrelieved system of order, the greater the crash of the dead society.

From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.

The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.

The aims of scientific thought are to see the general in the particular and the eternal in the transitory.

The race that does not value trained intelligence is doomed.