The scientific-religious conflict ultimately is a conflict between allegiance to this method and allegiance to even an irreducible minimum of belief so fixed in advance that it can never be modified.

It is difficult to connect general principles with such thoroughly concrete things as children.

To savages it would seem preposterous to seek out a place where nothing but learning was going on in order that one might learn.

There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction.

I believe that the community's duty to education is, therefore, its paramount moral duty. By law and punishment, by social agitation and discussion, society can regulate and form itself in a more or less haphazard and chance way. But through education society can formulate its own purposes, can organize its own means and resources, and thus shape itself with definiteness and economy in the direction in which it wishes to move.

Intellectually religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it.

As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.