In general, every stimulus directs activity. It does not simply excite it or stir it up, but directs it toward an object.

most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.

All genuine learning comes through experience.

One might as well say he has sold when no one has bought as to say he has taught when no one has learned.

Personality must be educated, and personality cannot be educated by confining its operations to technical and specialized things, or to the less important relationships of life. Full education comes only when there is a responsible share on the part of each person, in proportion to capacity, in shaping the aims and policies of the social groups to which he belongs.

If the eye is constantly greeted by harmonious objects, having elegance of form and color, a standard of taste naturally grows up.

To be a recipient of a communication is to have an enlarged and changed experience. One shares in what another has thought and felt and in so far, meagerly or amply, has his own attitude modified.