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

...the moment of passage from disturbance into harmony is that of intensest life.

A good aim surveys the present state of experience of pupils, and forming a tentative plan of treatment, keeps the plan constantly in view and yet modifies it as conditions develop. The aim, in short, is experimental, and hence constantly growing as it is tested in action.

As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.

We rarely recognize the extent in which our conscious estimates of what is worth while and what is not, are due to standards of which we are not conscious at all.

Inside the modern city, in spite of its nominal political unity, there are probably more communities, more differing customs, traditions, aspirations, and forms of government or control, than existed in an entire continent at an earlier epoch.

Insight into soul-action, ability to discriminate the genuine from the sham and capacity to further one and discourage the other.