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.

There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction.

The bad man is the man who no matter how good he has been is beginning to deteriorate, to grow less good. The good man is the man who no matter how morally unworthy he has been is moving to become better. Such a conception makes one severe in judging himself and humane in judging others.

But the individual butterfly or earthquake remains just the unique existence which it is. We forget in explaining its occurrence that it is only the occurrence that is explained, not the thing itself.

Giving and taking of orders modifies actions and results, but does not of itself effect a sharing of purposes, a communication of interests.

Purposeful action is thus the goal of all that is truly educative.

Insight into soul-action, ability to discriminate the genuine from the sham and capacity to further one and discourage the other.