We cannot set up, out of our heads, something we regard as an ideal society.

Science is a systematic means of gaining reliable knowledge.

Society exists through a process of transmission quite as much as biological life. This transmission occurs by means of communication of habits of doing, thinking, and feeling from the older to the younger.

I believe that the school must represent present life - life as real and vital to the child as that which he carries on in the home, in the neighborhood, or on the play-ground.

I believe that in the ideal school we have the reconciliation of the individualistic and the institutional ideals.

The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.

If the eye is constantly greeted by harmonious objects, having elegance of form and color, a standard of taste naturally grows up.