If there is one conclusion to which human experience unmistakably points it is that democratic ends demand democratic methods for their realization.

If a person cannot foresee the consequences of his act, and is not capable of understanding what he is told about its outcome by those with more experience, it is impossible for him to guide his act intelligently. In such a state, every act is alike to him.

Just because life signifies not bare passive existence (supposing there is such a thing), but a way of acting, environment or medium signifies what enters into this activity as a sustaining or frustrating condition.

I believe that the school is primarily a social institution. Education being a social process, the school is simply that form of community life in which all those agencies are concentrated that will be most effective in bringing the child to share in the inherited resources of the race, and to use his own powers for social ends. I believe that education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.

The teacher loses the position of external boss or dictator but takes on that of leader of group activities

Balance is balancing.

The central problem of an education based upon experience is to select the kind of present experience that live fruitfully and creatively in subsequent experiences.