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

Man's home is nature; his purposes and aims are dependent for execution upon natural conditions. Separated from such conditions they become empty dreams and idle indulgences of fancy.

What's in a question, you ask? Everything. It is evoking stimulating response or stultifying inquiry. It is, in essence, the very core of teaching.

We do not learn from experience...we learn from reflecting on experience.

We cannot think of ourselves save as to some extent social being. Hence, we cannot separate the idea of ourselves and our own good from our idea of others and their good.

Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites.

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