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

If the eye is constantly greeted by harmonious objects, having elegance of form and color, a standard of taste naturally grows up.

The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.

Teachers are the agents through which knowledge and skills are communicated and rules of conduct enforced.

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

We always live at the time we live and not at some other time, and only by extracting at each present time the full meaning of each present experience are we prepared for doing the same thing in the future.

When the child sees the parent looking for something, it is as natural for it also to look for the object and to give it over when it finds it, as it was, under other circumstances, to receive it. Multiply such an instance by the thousand details of daily intercourse, and one has a picture of the most permanent and enduring method of giving direction to the activities of the young.