A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience.

The development occurs through reciprocal give-and-take, the teacher taking but not being afraid also to give.

The acquisition however perfectly of skills is not an end in itself. They are things to be put to use as a contribution to a common and shared life.

Every society gets encumbered with what is trivial, with dead wood from the past, and with what is positively perverse.

In a world that has so largely engaged in a mad and often brutally harsh race for material gain by means of ruthless competition, it behooves the school to make ceaseless and intelligently organized effort to develop above all else the will for co-operation and the spirit which sees in every other individual one who has an equal right to share in the cultural and material fruits of collective human invention, industry, skill and knowledge

I should venture to assert that the most pervasive fallacy of philosophic thinking goes back to neglect of context.

Every teacher should realize the dignity of his calling.