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

The bad man is the man who no matter how good he has been is beginning to deteriorate, to grow less good. The good man is the man who no matter how morally unworthy he has been is moving to become better. Such a conception makes one severe in judging himself and humane in judging others.

Thought is impossible without words.

Creative thinking will improve as we relate the new fact to the old and all facts to each other.

It is difficult to connect general principles with such thoroughly concrete things as children.

The need for growth, for development, for change, is fundamental to life.

Experiences in order to be educative must lead out into an expanding world of subject matter, a subject matter of facts or information and of ideas. This condition is satisfied only as the educator views teaching and learning as a continuous process of reconstruction of experience.