Those engaged in directing the actions of others are always in danger of overlooking the importance of the sequential development of those they direct.

But the individual butterfly or earthquake remains just the unique existence which it is. We forget in explaining its occurrence that it is only the occurrence that is explained, not the thing itself.

Thinking is the accurate and deliberate instituting of connections between what is done and its consequences.

Experience alone cannot deliver to us necessary truths; truths completely demonstrated by reason. Its conclusions are particular, not universal.

In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available to other experiences.

I believe that the school is primarily a social institution. Education being a social process, the school is simply that form of community life in which all those agencies are concentrated that will be most effective in bringing the child to share in the inherited resources of the race, and to use his own powers for social ends. I believe that education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.

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