As societies become more complex in structure and resources, the need of formal or intentional teaching and learning increases.

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

Thought is impossible without words.

The central problem of an education based upon experience is to select the kind of present experience that live fruitfully and creatively in subsequent experiences.

The bare fact that language consists of sounds which are mutually intelligible is enough of itself to show that its meaning depends upon connection with a shared experience.

There is no common understanding, and no community life. But in a shared activity, each person refers what he is doing to what the other is doing and vice-versa.

Purposeful action is thus the goal of all that is truly educative.