Schools have ignored the value of experience and chosen to teach by pouring in.

In the olden times, the diversity of groups was largely a geographical matter. There were many societies, but each, within its own territory, was comparatively homogeneous. But with the development of commerce, transportation, intercommunication, and emigration, countries like the United States are composed of a combination of different groups with different traditional customs. It is this situation which has, perhaps more than any other one cause, forced the demand for an educational institution which shall provide something like a homogeneous and balanced environment for the young.

A man can be prevented from breaking into other persons' houses by shutting him up, but shutting him up may not alter his disposition to commit burglary.

A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience.

Men have never fully used [their] powers to advance the good in life, because they have waited upon some power external to themselves and to nature to do the work they are responsible for doing.

The development occurs through reciprocal give-and-take, the teacher taking but not being afraid also to give.

The acquisition however perfectly of skills is not an end in itself. They are things to be put to use as a contribution to a common and shared life.