Resort to military force is a first sure sign that we are giving up the struggle for the democratic way of life, and that the Old World has conquered morally as well as geographically succeeding in imposing upon us its ideals and methods.

The result of the educative process is capacity for further education.

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.

In fact, the human young are so immature that if they were left to themselves without the guidance and succor of others, they could not acquire the rudimentary abilities necessary for physical existence.

The teacher loses the position of external boss or dictator but takes on that of leader of group activities

A tribe, let us say, is warlike. The successes for which it strives, the achievements upon which it sets store, are connected with fighting and victory.

Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.