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.

Of what use, educationally speaking, is it to be able to see the end in the beginning?

It has been petrified into a slavery of thought and sentiment, as intolerant superiority on the part of the few and an intolerable burden on the part of the many.

There's all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.

If the members who compose a society lived on continuously, they might educate the new-born members, but it would be a task directed by personal interest rather than social need. Now it is a work of necessity.

Thinking and feeling that have to do with action in association with others is as much a social mode of behavior as is the most overt cooperative or hostile act.

Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.