a problem well put is half solved.

There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.

Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living. Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live. Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

Mere physical growing up, mere mastery of the bare necessities of subsistence will not suffice to reproduce the life of the group. Deliberate effort and the taking of thoughtful pains are required.

One of the saddest things about US education is that the wisdom of our most successful teachers is lost to the profession when they retire.

The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education — or that the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth.

Resort to military force is a first sure sign that we are giving up the struggle for the democratic way of life, and that the Old World has conquered morally as well as geographically succeeding in imposing upon us its ideals and methods.