most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.

One can think effectively only when one is willing to endure suspense and to undergo the trouble of searching.

We do not learn from experience...we learn from reflecting on experience.

Of what use, educationally speaking, is it to be able to see the end in the beginning?

By doing his share in the associated activity, the individual appropriates the purpose which actuates it, becomes familiar with its methods and subject matters, acquires needed skill, and is saturated with its emotional spirit.

All communication is like art. It may fairly be said, therefore, that any social arrangement that remains vitally social, or vitally shared, is educative to those who participate in it. Only when it becomes cast in a mold and runs in a routine way does it lose its educative power.

It has been petrified into a slavery of thought and sentiment, as intolerant superiority on the part of the few and an intolerable burden on the part of the many.