The origin of thinking is some perplexity, confusion or doubt.

Where there is giving there must be taking.

It has been petrified into a slavery of thought and sentiment, as intolerant superiority on the part of the few and an intolerable burden on the part of the many.

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

Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.

The phrase "think for one's self" is a pleonasm. Unless one does it for one's self, it isn't thinking.

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.