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.

The struggle for democracy has to be maintained on as many fronts as culture has aspects: political, economic, international, educational, scientific and artistic, religious.

If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.

Good manners come, as we say, from good breeding or rather are good breeding; and breeding is acquired by habitual action, in response to habitual stimuli, not by conveying information.

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

The end justifies the means only when the means used are such as actually bring about the desired and desirable end.

There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.