One might as well say he has sold when no one has bought as to say he has taught when no one has learned.

If there is one conclusion to which human experience unmistakably points it is that democratic ends demand democratic methods for their realization.

To have an idea of a thing is not just to get certain sensations from it. It is to be able to respond to the thing in view of its place in an inclusive scheme of action; it is to foresee the drift and probable consequence of the action of the thing upon us and of our action upon it.

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.

All genuine education comes about through experience.

Method means that arrangement of subject matter which makes it most effective in use. Never is method something outside of the material.

A being connected with other beings cannot perform his own activities without taking the activities of others into account. For they are the indispensable conditions of the realization of his tendencies. When he moves he stirs them and reciprocally.