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

Teaching may be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless somebody buys.

There can be no doubt ... of our dependence upon forces beyond our control. Primitive man was so impotent in the face of these forces that g , especially in an unfavorable natural environment, fear became a dominant attitude, and, as the old saying goes, fear created gods.

Fundamental modes of speech, the bulk of the vocabulary, are formed in the ordinary intercourse of life, carried on not as a set means of instruction but as a social necessity.

What nutrition and reproduction are to physiological life, education is to social life.

Vocational training is the training of animals or slaves. It fits them to become cogs in the industrial machine. Free men need liberal education to prepare them to make a good use of their freedom.

Schools should take part in the great work of construction and organization that will have to be done.