Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.

Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.

The school must be "a genuine form of active community life, instead of a place set apart in which to learn lessons".

As societies become more complex in structure and resources, the need of formal or intentional teaching and learning increases.

I know that there are many persons to whom it seems derogatory to link a body of philosophic ideas to the social life and cultureof their epoch. They seem to accept a dogma of immaculate conception of philosophical systems.

Education as growth or maturity should be an ever-present process.

But the individual butterfly or earthquake remains just the unique existence which it is. We forget in explaining its occurrence that it is only the occurrence that is explained, not the thing itself.