In England, philosophers are honoured, respected; they rise to public offices, they are buried with the kings... In France warrants are issued against them, they are persecuted, pelted with pastoral letters: Do we see that England is any the worse for it?

If we learn not humility, we learn nothing.

Schools should take part in the great work of construction and organization that will have to be done.

The experience has to be formulated in order to be communicated.

By doing his share in the associated activity, the individual appropriates the purpose which actuates it, becomes familiar with its methods and subject matters, acquires needed skill, and is saturated with its emotional spirit.

Society not only continues to exist by transmission, by communication, but it may fairly be said to exist in transmission, in communication.

Experience, in short, is not a combination of mind and world, subject and object, method and subject matter, but is a single continuous interaction of a great diversity (literally countless in number) of energies.