It is the office of the school environment to balance the various elements in the social environment, and to see to it that each individual gets an opportunity to escape from the limitations of the social group in which he was born, and to come into living contact with a broader environment.

Teaching can be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless someone buys ... yet there are teachers who think they have done a good day's teaching irrespective of what the pupils have learned.

Criticism of the commitment of religion to the supernatural is thus positive in import.

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

We talk much more about individualism and liberty than our ancestors. But as so often happens, when anything becomes conscious, the consciousness is compensatory for absence in practice.

The reactionaries are in possession of force, in not only the army and police, but in the press and the schools

What nutrition and reproduction are to physiological life, education is to social life.