A child may have to be snatched with roughness away from a fire so that he shall not be burnt.

Since a democratic society repudiates the principle of external authority, it must find a substitute in voluntary disposition and interest; these can be created only by education.

All education which develops power to share effectively in social life is moral.

Education, in its broadest sense, is the means of this social continuity of life.

What accumulated knowledge exists in low grade societies is at least put into practice; it is transmuted into character; it exists with the depth of meaning that attaches to its coming within urgent daily interests.

Even today, in our industrial life, apart from certain values of industriousness and thrift, the intellectual and emotional reaction of the forms of human association under which the world's work is carried on receives little attention as compared with physical output.

No system has ever as yet existed which did not in some form involve the exploitation of some human beings for the advantage of others.