The plea for the predominance of learning to read in early school life because of the great importance attaching to literature seems to be a perversion.

The only thing that is unqualifiedly given is the total pervasive quality; and the objection to calling it "given" is that the word suggests something to which it is given, mind or thought or consciousness or whatever, as well possibly as something that gives.

One might as well say he has sold when no one has bought as to say he has taught when no one has learned.

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

Communication is a process of sharing experience till it becomes a common possession. It modifies the disposition of both the parties who partake in it.

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.

Any experience, however, trivial in its first appearance, is capable of assuming an indefinite richness of significance by extending its range of perceived connections.