When things have a meaning for us, we mean (intend, propose) what we do: when they do not, we act blindly, unconsciously, unintelligently.

As a child lives today, he will live tomorrow.

The demand for liberty is a demand for power, either for possession of powers of action not already possessed or for retention and expansion of powers already possessed.

What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all of its children.

Instruction is important.

Society not only continues to exist by transmission, by communication, but it may fairly be said to exist in transmission, in communication.

Too rarely is the individual teacher so free from the dictation of authoritative supervisor, textbook on methods, prescribed course of study, etc., that he can let his mind come to close quarters with the pupil's mind and the subject matter.