Even in a savage tribe, the achievements of adults are far beyond what the immature members would be capable of if left to themselves. With the growth of civilization, the gap between the original capacities of the immature and the standards and customs of the elders increases.

Intellectually religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it.

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.

A child may have to be snatched with roughness away from a fire so that he shall not be burnt.

The development occurs through reciprocal give-and-take, the teacher taking but not being afraid also to give.

To be a recipient of a communication is to have an enlarged and changed experience.

That education is not an affair of "telling" and being told, but an active and constructive process, is a principle almost as generally violated in practice as conceded in theory. Is not this deplorable situation due to the fact that the doctrine is itself merely told? It is preached; it is lectured; it is written about.