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

Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.

I believe that the only true education comes through the stimulation of the child's powers by the demands of the social situations in which he finds himself.

I know that there are many persons to whom it seems derogatory to link a body of philosophic ideas to the social life and cultureof their epoch. They seem to accept a dogma of immaculate conception of philosophical systems.

Some experiences are mis-educative. Any experience is mis-educative that has the effect of arresting or distorting the growth of further experience.

How many students ... were rendered callous to ideas, and how many lost the impetus to learn because of the way in which learning was experienced by them?

If we learn not humility, we learn nothing.