The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
Mere physical growing up, mere mastery of the bare necessities of subsistence will not suffice to reproduce the life of the group. Deliberate effort and the taking of thoughtful pains are required.
How can the child learn to be a free and responsible citizen when the teacher is bound?
Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.
...the moment of passage from disturbance into harmony is that of intensest life.
The need for growth - what we might call immaturity - is not a negative state of being.