Social engaged intellectuals must accept reality as they found it and shape it toward positive social goals, not stand aside in self-righteous isolation.

Insight into soul-action, ability to discriminate the genuine from the sham and capacity to further one and discourage the other.

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.

Always make the other person feel important.

Creative thinking will improve as we relate the new fact to the old and all facts to each other.

That the great majority of those who leave school should have some idea of the kind of evidence required to substantiate given types of belief does not seem unreasonable. Nor is it absurd to expect that they should go forth with a lively interest in the ways in which knowledge is improved and a marked distaste for all conclusions reached in disharmony with the methods of scientific inquiry.

I believe that in the ideal school we have the reconciliation of the individualistic and the institutional ideals.