Religions have been universal in the sense that all the people we know anything about have had a religion. But the differences among them are so great and so shocking that any common element that can be extracted is meaningless.... The older apologists for Christianity seem to have been better advised than some modern ones in condemning every religion but one as an impostor, as at bottom some kind of demon worship or at any rate a superstitious figment.

The result of the educative process is capacity for further education.

Creative thinking will improve as we relate the new fact to the old and all facts to each other.

Fundamental modes of speech, the bulk of the vocabulary, are formed in the ordinary intercourse of life, carried on not as a set means of instruction but as a social necessity.

Always make the other person feel important.

The phrase "think for one's self" is a pleonasm. Unless one does it for one's self, it isn't thinking.

The school has the function of coordinating within the disposition of each individual the diverse influences of the various social environments into which he enters.