Every living being needs continually renewed, and education is simply the chief process by which renewal occurs.

The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to feel important.

As we have seen there is some kind of continuity in any case since every experience affects for better or worse the attitudes which help decide the quality of further experiences, by setting up certain preference and aversion, and making it easier or harder to act for this or that end.

The primary ineluctable facts of the birth and death of each one of the constituent members in a social group determine the necessity of education.

As a society becomes more enlightened, it realizes that it is responsible not to transmit and conserve the whole of its existing achievements, but only such as make for a better future society. The school is its chief agency for the accomplishment of this end.

I believe that in the ideal school we have the reconciliation of the individualistic and the institutional ideals.

Just as the senses require sensible objects to stimulate them, so our powers of observation, recollection, and imagination do not work spontaneously, but are set in motion by the demands set up by current social occupations.