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

The theory of the method of knowing which is advanced in these pages may be termed pragmatic. ... Only that which has been organized into our disposition so as to enable us to adapt the environment to our needs and adapt our aims and desires to the situation in which we live is really knowledge.

Continuity of life means continual readaptation of the environment to the needs of living organisms.

Etymologically, the word education means just a process of leading or bringing up.

The conduct of schools, based upon a new order of conception, is so much more difficult than is the management of schools which walk the beaten path.

A child might be made to bow every time he met a certain person by pressure on his neck muscles, and bowing would finally become automatic. It would not, however, be an act of recognition or deference on his part, till he did it with a certain end in view - as having a certain meaning.

The moment philosophy supposes it can find a final and comprehensive solution, it ceases to be inquiry and becomes either apologetics or propaganda.