A being connected with other beings cannot perform his own activities without taking the activities of others into account. For they are the indispensable conditions of the realization of his tendencies. When he moves he stirs them and reciprocally.

To feel the meaning of what one is doing, and to rejoice in that meaning; to unite in one concurrent fact the unfolding of the inner life and the ordered development of material conditions--that is art.

Independent self-reliant people would be a counterproductive anachronism in the collective society of the future where people will be defined by their associations.

a problem well put is half solved.

Perhaps the greatest of all pedagogical fallacies is the notion that a person learns only the particular thing he is studying at the time.

Schools have ignored the value of experience and chosen to teach by pouring in.

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.