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

Teachers are the agents through which knowledge and skills are communicated and rules of conduct enforced.

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.

The phrase "think for one's self" is a pleonasm. Unless one does it for one's self, it isn't thinking.

Hunger not to have, but to be

In general, every stimulus directs activity. It does not simply excite it or stir it up, but directs it toward an object.

The spontaneous power of the child, his demand for self-expression, can not by any possibility be suppressed.