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

Despite the never ending play of conscious correction and instruction, the surrounding atmosphere and spirit is in the end the chief agent in forming manners.

The intellectual content of religions has always finally adapted itself to scientific and social conditions after they have become clear.... For this reason I do not think that those who are concerned about the future of a religious attitude should trouble themselves about the conflict of science with traditional doctrines.

The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.

A society with too few independent thinkers is vulnerable to control by disturbed and opportunistic leaders. A society which wants to create and maintain a free and democratic social system must create responsible independence of thought among its young.

The need for growth - what we might call immaturity - is not a negative state of being.

Education is not an affair of 'telling' and being told, but an active and constructive process.