We are a people of many races, many faiths, creeds, and religions. I do not think that the men who made the Constitution forbade the establishment of a State church because they were opposed to religion. They knew that the introduction of religious differences into American life would undermine the democratic foundations of this country. What holds for adults holds even more for children, sensitive and conscious of differences. I certainly hope that the Board of Education will think very, very seriously before it introduces this division and antagonism in our public schools.

To be a recipient of a communication is to have an enlarged and changed experience.

Democracy is a way of life controlled by a working faith in the possibilities of human nature. . . . This faith may be enacted in statutes, but it is only on paper unless it is put in force in the attitudes which human beings display to one another in all the incidents and relations of daily life.

Etymologically, the word education means just a process of leading or bringing up.

Politics is the shadow cast on society by big business.

Schools have ignored the value of experience and chosen to teach by pouring in.

Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.