Teaching may be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless somebody buys.

You can teach students to develop the ability to think reflectively, and you can help them understand what this means, but if they are not inclined to do so they never will.

As a matter of fact, a modern society is many societies more or less loosely connected. Each household with its immediate extension of friends makes a society; the village or street group of playmates is a community; each business group, each club, is another.

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

The bare fact that language consists of sounds which are mutually intelligible is enough of itself to show that its meaning depends upon connection with a shared experience.

Purposeful action is thus the goal of all that is truly educative.

Every society gets encumbered with what is trivial, with dead wood from the past, and with what is positively perverse.