The ultimate aim of production is not production of goods but the production of free human beings associated with one another on terms of equality.

Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.

To savages it would seem preposterous to seek out a place where nothing but learning was going on in order that one might learn.

Selection aims not only at simplifying but at weeding out what is undesirable.

Everything depends on the quality of the experience which is had.

Knowledge is no longer an immobile solid; it has been liquefied. it is actively moving in all the currents of society itself

It is not a nature cure, a system of faith healing, or a physical culture, or a medical treatment, or a semi-occult philosophy. As to what it is, Dewey's brief but striking description appeals most and has the least chance of being proved incorrect: 'It the Alexander Technique bears the same relation to education that education itself bears to all other human activities.'