Men live in a community in virtue of the things which they have in common; and communication is the way in which they come to possess things in common. What they must have in common in order to form a community or society are aims, beliefs, aspirations, knowledge - a common understanding - likemindedness as the sociologists say.

As a society becomes more enlightened, it realizes that it is responsible not to transmit and conserve the whole of its existing achievements, but only such as make for a better future society. The school is its chief agency for the accomplishment of this end.

Beings who are born not only unaware of, but quite indifferent to, the aims and habits of the social group have to be rendered cognizant of them and actively interested. Education, and education alone, spans the gap.

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

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

We do not learn from experience...we learn from reflecting on experience.

The plea for the predominance of learning to read in early school life because of the great importance attaching to literature seems to be a perversion.