Despite the never ending play of conscious correction and instruction, the surrounding atmosphere and spirit is in the end the chief agent in forming manners.

The primary ineluctable facts of the birth and death of each one of the constituent members in a social group determine the necessity of education.

Method means that arrangement of subject matter which makes it most effective in use. Never is method something outside of the material.

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

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.

...the moment of passage from disturbance into harmony is that of intensest life.

The words "environment," "medium" denote something more than surroundings which encompass an individual. They denote the specific continuity of the surroundings with his own active tendencies.