The young of human beings compare so poorly in original efficiency with the young of many of the lower animals, that even the powers needed for physical sustentation have to be acquired under tuition. How much more, then, is this the case with respect to all the technological, artistic, scientific, and moral achievements of humanity!

The school must be "a genuine form of active community life, instead of a place set apart in which to learn lessons".

As a child lives today, he will live tomorrow.

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

The first office of the social organ we call the school is to provide a simplified environment. It selects the features which are fairly fundamental and capable of being responded to by the young. Then it establishes a progressive order, using the factors first acquired as means of gaining insight into what is more complicated.

The plea for the predominance of learning to read in early school life because of the great importance attaching to literature seems to be a perversion.

Communication is a process of sharing experience till it becomes a common possession. It modifies the disposition of both the parties who partake in it.