A society with too few independent thinkers is vulnerable to control by disturbed and opportunistic leaders. A society which wants to create and maintain a free and democratic social system must create responsible independence of thought among its young.

Language exists only when it is listened to as well as spoken. The hearer is an indispensable partner.

If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist.

All communication is like art. It may fairly be said, therefore, that any social arrangement that remains vitally social, or vitally shared, is educative to those who participate in it. Only when it becomes cast in a mold and runs in a routine way does it lose its educative power.

The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.

The spontaneous power of the child, his demand for self-expression, can not by any possibility be suppressed.

Individuals are certainly interested, at times, in having their own way, and their own way may go contrary to the ways of others. But they are also interested, and chiefly interested upon the whole, in entering into the activities of others and taking part in conjoint and cooperative doings. Otherwise, no such thing as a community would be possible.