Some things which are remote in space and time from a living creature, especially a human creature, may form his environment even more truly than some of the things close to him.

Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites.

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

Science is a systematic means of gaining reliable knowledge.

The development occurs through reciprocal give-and-take, the teacher taking but not being afraid also to give.

Even when a person is frightened by threats into doing something, the threats work only because the person has an instinct of fear. If he has not, or if, though having it, it is under his own control, the threat has no more influence upon him than light has in causing a person to see who has no eyes.

From the standpoint of the child, the great waste in the school comes from his inability to utilize the experiences he gets outside the school in any complete and free way within the school itself; while, on the other hand, he is unable to apply in daily life what he is learning at school. That is the isolation of the school — its isolation from life.