The aim of education is growth: the aim of growth is more growth

The reactionaries are in possession of force, in not only the army and police, but in the press and the schools

The acquisition however perfectly of skills is not an end in itself. They are things to be put to use as a contribution to a common and shared life.

Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril.

The development occurs through reciprocal give-and-take, the teacher taking but not being afraid also to give.

Teaching can be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless someone buys ... yet there are teachers who think they have done a good day's teaching irrespective of what the pupils have learned.

Unless our laboratory results are to give us artificialities, mere scientific curiosities, they must be subjected to interpretation by gradual re-approximation to conditions of life.