Adults are naturally most conscious of directing the conduct of others when they are immediately aiming so to do. As a rule, they have such an aim consciously when they find themselves resisted; when others are doing things they do not wish them to do. But the more permanent and influential modes of control are those which operate from moment to moment continuously without such deliberate intention on our part.

Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites.

Since in reality there is nothing to which growth is relative save more growth, there is nothing to which education is subordinate save more education.‎

Schools should take part in the great work of construction and organization that will have to be done.

In general, every stimulus directs activity. It does not simply excite it or stir it up, but directs it toward an object.

Philosophy recovers itself when it ceases to be a device for dealing with the problems of philosophers and becomes a method, cultivated by philosophers, for dealing with the problems of men.

We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.