The bad man is the man who no matter how good he has been is beginning to deteriorate, to grow less good. The good man is the man who no matter how morally unworthy he has been is moving to become better. Such a conception makes one severe in judging himself and humane in judging others.

One of the saddest things about US education is that the wisdom of our most successful teachers is lost to the profession when they retire.

A narrow and moralistic view of morals is responsible for the failure to recognize that all the aims and values which are desirable in education are themselves moral. Discipline, natural development, culture, social efficiency, are moral traits - marks of a person who is a worthy member of that society which it is the business of education to further.

The teacher loses the position of external boss or dictator but takes on that of leader of group activities

Men have gone on to build up vast intellectual schemes, philosophies, and theologies, to prove that ideals are not real as ideals but as antecedently existing actualities. They have failed to see that in converting moral realities into matters of intellectual assent they have evinced lack of moral faith.

The real process of education should be the process of learning to think through the application of real problems.

Some things which are remote in space and time from a living creature, especially a human creature, may form his environment even more truly than some of the things close to him.