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

It is obvious to any observer that in every western country the increase of importance of public schools has been at least coincident with the relaxation of older family ties.

Schools should take an active part in directing social change, and share in the construction of a new social order

Selection aims not only at simplifying but at weeding out what is undesirable.

Since education is not a means to living, but is identical with the operation of living a life which is fruitful and inherently significant, the only ultimate value which can be set up is just the process of living itself. And this is not an end to which studies and activities are subordinate means; it is the whole of which they are ingredients.

The real process of education should be the process of learning to think through the application of real problems.

The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.