The foundations of any subject may be taught to anybody at any age in some form.

It is sentimentalism to assume that the teaching of life can always be fitted to the child's interests, just as it is empty formalism to force the child to parrot the formulas of adult society. Interests can be created and stimulated.

Being able to "go beyond the information" given to "figure things out" is one of the few untarnishable joys of life.

I would urge that the yeast of education is the idea of excellence, and the idea of excellence comprises as many forms as there are individuals, each of whom develops his own image of excellence. The school must have as one of its principal functions the nurturing of images of excellence.

We are only now on the threshold of knowing the range of the educability of man-the perfectibility of man. We have never addressed ourselves to this problem before.

Teaching is the canny art of intellectual temptation

We begin with the hypothesis that any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development.