Not perfection as a final goal, but the ever-enduring process of perfecting, maturing, refining is the aim of living.

To be a recipient of a communication is to have an enlarged and changed experience.

To savages it would seem preposterous to seek out a place where nothing but learning was going on in order that one might learn.

You can teach students to develop the ability to think reflectively, and you can help them understand what this means, but if they are not inclined to do so they never will.

Men have never fully used [their] powers to advance the good in life, because they have waited upon some power external to themselves and to nature to do the work they are responsible for doing.

If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.

Education is a regulation of the process of coming to share in the social consciousness; and that the adjustment of individual activity on the basis of this social consciousness is the only sure method of social reconstruction.