Education is not an affair of 'telling' and being told, but an active and constructive process.

To pull at a rope at which others happen to be pulling is not a shared or conjoint activity, unless the pulling is done with knowledge that others are pulling and for the sake of either helping or hindering what they are doing.

I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.

It is difficult to connect general principles with such thoroughly concrete things as children.

Democracy is a form of government only because it is a form of moral and spiritual association.

We never educate directly, but indirectly by means of the environment. Whether we permit chance environments to do the work, or whether we design environments for the purpose makes a great difference.

The good society was, like the good self, a diverse yet harmonious, growing yet unified whole, a fully participatory democracy in which the powers and capacities of the individuals that comprised it were harmonized by their cooperative activities into a community that permitted the full and free expression of individuality.