Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.

I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.

The central problem of an education based upon experience is to select the kind of present experience that live fruitfully and creatively in subsequent experiences.

Cease conceiving of education as mere preparation for later life, and make it the full meaning of the present life.

Education is not an affair of 'telling' and being told, but an active and constructive process.

All of us have many habits of whose import we are quite unaware, since they were formed without our knowing what we were about. Consequently they possess us, rather than we them. They move us; they control us. Unless we become aware of what they accomplish, and pass judgment upon the worth of the result, we do not control them.

If the members who compose a society lived on continuously, they might educate the new-born members, but it would be a task directed by personal interest rather than social need. Now it is a work of necessity.