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

As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.

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

There can be no doubt ... of our dependence upon forces beyond our control. Primitive man was so impotent in the face of these forces that g , especially in an unfavorable natural environment, fear became a dominant attitude, and, as the old saying goes, fear created gods.

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.

A response is not just a re-action, a protest, as it were, against being disturbed; it is, as the word indicates, an answer. It meets the stimulus, and corresponds with it.

But the individual butterfly or earthquake remains just the unique existence which it is. We forget in explaining its occurrence that it is only the occurrence that is explained, not the thing itself.