Not only is social life identical with communication, but all communication (and hence all genuine social life) is educative.

Thinking is the accurate and deliberate instituting of connections between what is done and its consequences.

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

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

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.

The life of the ancient Greeks and Romans has profoundly influenced our own, and yet the ways in which they affect us do not present themselves on the surface of our ordinary experiences.

The real process of education should be the process of learning to think through the application of real problems.