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

Intellectually religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it.

If the eyes are open and there is light, seeing occurs; the stimulus is but a condition of the fulfillment of the proper function of the organ, not an outside interruption. To some extent, then, all direction or control is a guiding of activity to its own end; it is an assistance in doing fully what some organ is already tending to do.

The experience has to be formulated in order to be communicated.

Of what use, educationally speaking, is it to be able to see the end in the beginning?

Nature as a whole is a progressive realization of purpose strictly comparable to the realization of purpose in any single plant or animal.

One code prevails in the family; another, on the street; a third, in the workshop or store; a fourth, in the religious association. As a person passes from one of the environments to another, he is subjected to antagonistic pulls, and is in danger of being split into a being having different standards of judgment and emotion for different occasions. This danger imposes upon the school a steadying and integrating office.