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

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.

No system has ever as yet existed which did not in some form involve the exploitation of some human beings for the advantage of others.

It science involves an intelligent and persistent endeavor to revise current beliefs so as to weed out what is erroneous, to add to their accuracy, and, above all, to give them such shape that the dependencies of the various facts upon one another may be as obvious as possible.

I believe that in this way the teacher always is the prophet of the true God and the usherer in of the true kingdom of God.

As formal teaching and training grow in extent, there is the danger of creating an undesirable split between the experience gained in more direct associations and what is acquired in school. This danger was never greater than at the present time, on account of the rapid growth in the last few centuries of knowledge and technical modes of skill.

The best preparation for the future is a well-spent today.