Everything depends on the quality of the experience which is had.

The religious is any activity pursued in behalf of an ideal end against obstacles and in spite of threats of personal loss because of its general and enduring value.

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.

The result of the educative process is capacity for further education.

Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.

One code prevails in the family; another, on the street; a third, in the workshop or store; a fourth, in the religious association. As a person passes from one of the environments to another, he is subjected to antagonistic pulls, and is in danger of being split into a being having different standards of judgment and emotion for different occasions. This danger imposes upon the school a steadying and integrating office.

Even dogs and horses have their actions modified by association with human beings; they form different habits because human beings are concerned with what they do.