An empirical philosophy is in any case a kind of intellectual disrobing. We cannot permanently divest ourselves of the intellectual habits we take on and wear when we assimilate the culture of our own time and place. But intelligent furthering of culture demands that we take some of them off, that we inspect them critically to see what they are made of and what wearing them does to us. We cannot achieve recovery of primitive naïveté. But there is attainable a cultivated naïveté of eye, ear and thought.

The aim of education is growth: the aim of growth is more growth

Men have never fully used [their] powers to advance the good in life, because they have waited upon some power external to themselves and to nature to do the work they are responsible for doing.

All education which develops power to share effectively in social life is moral.

Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.

If there is one conclusion to which human experience unmistakably points it is that democratic ends demand democratic methods for their realization.

Creative thinking will improve as we relate the new fact to the old and all facts to each other.