The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
The best preparation for the future is a well-spent today.
If the members who compose a society lived on continuously, they might educate the new-born members, but it would be a task directed by personal interest rather than social need. Now it is a work of necessity.
All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate.
Education as growth or maturity should be an ever-present process.
There can be no doubt ... of our dependence upon forces beyond our control. Primitive man was so impotent in the face of these forces that g , especially in an unfavorable natural environment, fear became a dominant attitude, and, as the old saying goes, fear created gods.