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

Without the English, reason and philosophy would still be in the most despicable infancy in France.

Such words as "society" and "community" are likely to be misleading, for they have a tendency to make us think there is a single thing corresponding to the single word.

Confidence is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life.

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.

To "learn from experience" is to make a backward and forward connection between what we do to things and what we enjoy or suffer from things in consequence.

I believe that in the ideal school we have the reconciliation of the individualistic and the institutional ideals.