Intellectually religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it.

Independent self-reliant people would be a counterproductive anachronism in the collective society of the future where people will be defined by their associations.

A good aim surveys the present state of experience of pupils, and forming a tentative plan of treatment, keeps the plan constantly in view and yet modifies it as conditions develop. The aim, in short, is experimental, and hence constantly growing as it is tested in action.

Just as the senses require sensible objects to stimulate them, so our powers of observation, recollection, and imagination do not work spontaneously, but are set in motion by the demands set up by current social occupations.

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

Society not only continues to exist by transmission, by communication, but it may fairly be said to exist in transmission, in communication.

The end justifies the means only when the means used are such as actually bring about the desired and desirable end.