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

The problem is to extract the desirable traits of forms of community life which actually exist, and employ them to criticize undesirable features and suggest improvement

Understanding one another means that objects, including sounds, have the same value for both with respect to carrying on a common pursuit.

Since growth is the characteristic of life, education is all one with growing; it has no end beyond itself. The criterion of the value of school education is the extent in which it creates a desire for continuous growth and supplies means for making the desire effective in fact.

Traveling is a constant arriving, while arrival that precludes further traveling is most easily attained by going to sleep or dying.

The phrase "think for one's self" is a pleonasm. Unless one does it for one's self, it isn't thinking.

I believe that the only true education comes through the stimulation of the child's powers by the demands of the social situations in which he finds himself.