All communication is like art. It may fairly be said, therefore, that any social arrangement that remains vitally social, or vitally shared, is educative to those who participate in it. Only when it becomes cast in a mold and runs in a routine way does it lose its educative power.

Mind is a verb not a noun.

The acquisition however perfectly of skills is not an end in itself. They are things to be put to use as a contribution to a common and shared life.

The development occurs through reciprocal give-and-take, the teacher taking but not being afraid also to give.

In general, every stimulus directs activity. It does not simply excite it or stir it up, but directs it toward an object.

What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all of its children.

One might as well say he has sold when no one has bought as to say he has taught when no one has learned.