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

Communication of science as subject-matter has so far outrun in education the construction of a scientific habit of mind that to some extent the natural common sense of mankind has been interfered with to its detriment.

It may be said that an education which does not succeed in making poetry a resource in the business of life as well as in its leisure, has something the matter with it.

...the moment of passage from disturbance into harmony is that of intensest life.

Some experiences are mis-educative. Any experience is mis-educative that has the effect of arresting or distorting the growth of further experience.

A society which is mobile, which is full of channels for the distribution of a change occurring anywhere, must see to it that its members are educated to personal initiative and adaptability.

In general, every stimulus directs activity. It does not simply excite it or stir it up, but directs it toward an object.