There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience to another, especially if it be somewhat complicated, and you will find your own attitude toward your experience changing.

Of these three words, direction, control, and guidance, the last best conveys the idea of assisting through cooperation the natural capacities of the individuals guided; control conveys rather the notion of an energy brought to bear from without and meeting some resistance from the one controlled; direction is a more neutral term and suggests the fact that the active tendencies of those directed are led in a certain continuous course, instead of dispersing aimlessly.

When things have a meaning for us, we mean (intend, propose) what we do: when they do not, we act blindly, unconsciously, unintelligently.

One can think effectively only when one is willing to endure suspense and to undergo the trouble of searching.

Traveling is a constant arriving, while arrival that precludes further traveling is most easily attained by going to sleep or dying.

All education which develops power to share effectively in social life is moral.

Education, in its broadest sense, is the means of this social continuity of life.