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

I believe that the school must represent present life - life as real and vital to the child as that which he carries on in the home, in the neighborhood, or on the play-ground.

I do not think that any thorough-going modification of college curriculum would be possible without a modification of the methods of instruction.

The teacher loses the position of external boss or dictator but takes on that of leader of group activities

What accumulated knowledge exists in low grade societies is at least put into practice; it is transmuted into character; it exists with the depth of meaning that attaches to its coming within urgent daily interests.

Always make the other person feel important.

The conduct of schools, based upon a new order of conception, is so much more difficult than is the management of schools which walk the beaten path.