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

There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience to another, especially if it be somewhat complicated, and you will find your own attitude toward your experience changing.

Continuity of life means continual readaptation of the environment to the needs of living organisms.

The teacher loses the position of external boss or dictator but takes on that of leader of group activities

Knowledge falters when imagination clips its wings or fears to use them.

In undeveloped social groups, we find very little formal teaching and training. Savage groups mainly rely for instilling needed dispositions into the young upon the same sort of association which keeps adults loyal to their group. They have no special devices, material, or institutions for teaching save in connection with initiation ceremonies by which the youth are inducted into full social membership. For the most part, they depend upon children learning the customs of the adults, acquiring their emotional set and stock of ideas, by sharing in what the elders are doing.

The spontaneous power of the child, his demand for self-expression, can not by any possibility be suppressed.