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.

It is the office of the school environment to balance the various elements in the social environment, and to see to it that each individual gets an opportunity to escape from the limitations of the social group in which he was born, and to come into living contact with a broader environment.

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

What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all of its children.

The real purveyors of the news are artists, for artists are the ones who infuse fact with perception, emotion, and appreciation...We are beginning to realize that emotions and imagination are more potent in shaping public sentiment and opinion than information and reason.

There is no common understanding, and no community life. But in a shared activity, each person refers what he is doing to what the other is doing and vice-versa.

Schools should take part in the great work of construction and organization that will have to be done.