All genuine education comes about through experience.

Modern life means democracy, democracy means freeing intelligence for independent effectivenessthe emancipation of mind as an individual organ to do its own work. We naturally associate democracy, to be sure, with freedom of action, but freedom of action without freed capacity of thought behind it is only chaos.

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

Science is a systematic means of gaining reliable knowledge.

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

There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.

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