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

Inference is always an invasion of the unknown, a leap from the known.

It may be said that an education which does not succeed in making poetry a resource in the business of life as well as in its leisure, has something the matter with it.

The outstanding problem of the Public is discovery and identification of itself

What nutrition and reproduction are to physiological life, education is to social life.

As a matter of fact, a modern society is many societies more or less loosely connected. Each household with its immediate extension of friends makes a society; the village or street group of playmates is a community; each business group, each club, is another.

The importance of language in gaining knowledge is doubtless the chief cause of the common notion that knowledge may be passed directly from one to another. It almost seems as if all we have to do to convey an idea into the mind of another is to convey a sound into his ear. Thus imparting knowledge gets assimilated to a purely physical process.