The phrase "think for one's self" is a pleonasm. Unless one does it for one's self, it isn't thinking.

Even dogs and horses have their actions modified by association with human beings; they form different habits because human beings are concerned with what they do.

The central problem of an education based upon experience is to select the kind of present experience that live fruitfully and creatively in subsequent experiences.

A man can be prevented from breaking into other persons' houses by shutting him up, but shutting him up may not alter his disposition to commit burglary.

The spontaneous power of the child, his demand for self-expression, can not by any possibility be suppressed.

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

How many students ... were rendered callous to ideas, and how many lost the impetus to learn because of the way in which learning was experienced by them?