Only in education, never in the life of farmer, sailor, merchant, physician, or laboratory experimenter, does knowledge mean primarily a store of information aloof from doing.

Even dogs and horses have their actions modified by association with human beings; they form different habits because human beings are concerned with what they do.

There is nothing left worth preserving in the notions of unseen powers, controlling human destiny, to which obedience and worship are due.

The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education — or that the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth.

The reactionaries are in possession of force, in not only the army and police, but in the press and the schools

There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.

Men live in a community in virtue of the things which they have in common; and communication is the way in which they come to possess things in common. What they must have in common in order to form a community or society are aims, beliefs, aspirations, knowledge - a common understanding - likemindedness as the sociologists say.