Schools should take an active part in directing social change, and share in the construction of a new social order

Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.

Insight into soul-action, ability to discriminate the genuine from the sham and capacity to further one and discourage the other.

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

Thinking and feeling that have to do with action in association with others is as much a social mode of behavior as is the most overt cooperative or hostile act.

A narrow and moralistic view of morals is responsible for the failure to recognize that all the aims and values which are desirable in education are themselves moral. Discipline, natural development, culture, social efficiency, are moral traits - marks of a person who is a worthy member of that society which it is the business of education to further.

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.