The outstanding problem of the Public is discovery and identification of itself

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

The conduct of schools, based upon a new order of conception, is so much more difficult than is the management of schools which walk the beaten path.

The origin of thinking is some perplexity, confusion or doubt.

Since changes are going on anyway, the great thing is to learn enough about them so that we will be able to lay hold of them and turn them in the direction of our desires. Conditions and events are neither to be fled from nor passively acquiesced in; they are to be utilized and directed.

The struggle for democracy has to be maintained on as many fronts as culture has aspects: political, economic, international, educational, scientific and artistic, religious.

One can think effectively only when one is willing to endure suspense and to undergo the trouble of searching.