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

The theory of the method of knowing which is advanced in these pages may be termed pragmatic. ... Only that which has been organized into our disposition so as to enable us to adapt the environment to our needs and adapt our aims and desires to the situation in which we live is really knowledge.

Communication is a process of sharing experience till it becomes a common possession. It modifies the disposition of both the parties who partake in it.

What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all of its children.

All genuine education comes about through experience.

For in spite of itself any movement that thinks and acts in terms of an ‘ism becomes so involved in reaction against other ‘isms that it is unwittingly controlled by them. For it then forms its principles by reaction against them instead of by a comprehensive, constructive survey of actual needs, problems, and possibilities.

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