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

If the eye is constantly greeted by harmonious objects, having elegance of form and color, a standard of taste naturally grows up.

We always live at the time we live and not at some other time, and only by extracting at each present time the full meaning of each present experience are we prepared for doing the same thing in the future.

The phrase "think for one's self" is a pleonasm. Unless one does it for one's self, it isn't thinking.

The primary ineluctable facts of the birth and death of each one of the constituent members in a social group determine the necessity of education.

Men have gone on to build up vast intellectual schemes, philosophies, and theologies, to prove that ideals are not real as ideals but as antecedently existing actualities. They have failed to see that in converting moral realities into matters of intellectual assent they have evinced lack of moral faith.

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.