Knowledge is no longer an immobile solid; it has been liquefied. it is actively moving in all the currents of society itself

There is nothing left worth preserving in the notions of unseen powers, controlling human destiny, to which obedience and worship are due.

The parts of a machine work with a maximum of cooperativeness for a common result, but they do not form a community. If, however, they were all cognizant of the common end and all interested in it so that they regulated their specific activity in view of it, then they would form a community. But this would involve communication. Each would have to know what the other was about and would have to have some way of keeping the other informed as to his own purpose and progress.

Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone's knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier.

A child might be made to bow every time he met a certain person by pressure on his neck muscles, and bowing would finally become automatic. It would not, however, be an act of recognition or deference on his part, till he did it with a certain end in view - as having a certain meaning.

All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate.

Many of the obstacles for change which have been attributed to human nature are in fact due to the inertia of institutions and to the voluntary desire of powerful classes to maintain the existing status.