Every society gets encumbered with what is trivial, with dead wood from the past, and with what is positively perverse.

Balance is balancing.

Not perfection as a final goal, but the ever-enduring process of perfecting, maturing, refining is the aim of living.

Not only is social life identical with communication, but all communication (and hence all genuine social life) is educative.

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

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.

Too rarely is the individual teacher so free from the dictation of authoritative supervisor, textbook on methods, prescribed course of study, etc., that he can let his mind come to close quarters with the pupil's mind and the subject matter.