To "learn from experience" is to make a backward and forward connection between what we do to things and what we enjoy or suffer from things in consequence.

All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate.

Criticism of the commitment of religion to the supernatural is thus positive in import.

To feel the meaning of what one is doing, and to rejoice in that meaning; to unite in one concurrent fact the unfolding of the inner life and the ordered development of material conditions--that is art.

If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist.

That education is not an affair of "telling" and being told, but an active and constructive process, is a principle almost as generally violated in practice as conceded in theory. Is not this deplorable situation due to the fact that the doctrine is itself merely told? It is preached; it is lectured; it is written about.

Communication of science as subject-matter has so far outrun in education the construction of a scientific habit of mind that to some extent the natural common sense of mankind has been interfered with to its detriment.