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

The plea for the predominance of learning to read in early school life because of the great importance attaching to literature seems to be a perversion.

Adults are naturally most conscious of directing the conduct of others when they are immediately aiming so to do. As a rule, they have such an aim consciously when they find themselves resisted; when others are doing things they do not wish them to do. But the more permanent and influential modes of control are those which operate from moment to moment continuously without such deliberate intention on our part.

Instruction is important.

When others are not doing what we would like them to or are threatening disobedience, we are most conscious of the need of controlling them and of the influences by which they are controlled.

We do not learn from experience...we learn from reflecting on experience.

The life of the ancient Greeks and Romans has profoundly influenced our own, and yet the ways in which they affect us do not present themselves on the surface of our ordinary experiences.