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

[T]he schools, through reliance upon the spur of competition and the bestowing of special honors and prizes, only build up and strengthen the disposition that makes an individual when he leaves school employ his special talents and superior skill to outwit his fellow without respect for the welfare of others

We always live at the time we live and not at some other time, and only by extracting at each present time the full meaning of each present experience are we prepared for doing the same thing in the future.

Adults are naturally most conscious of directing the conduct of others when they are immediately aiming so to do. As a rule, they have such an aim consciously when they find themselves resisted; when others are doing things they do not wish them to do. But the more permanent and influential modes of control are those which operate from moment to moment continuously without such deliberate intention on our part.

The end justifies the means only when the means used are such as actually bring about the desired and desirable end.

A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience.

Education must be understood as growth, or the facilitation of growth.