You cannot teach today the same way you did yesterday to prepare students for tomorrow.

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

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

Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living. Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live. Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

There is not, in fact, any such thing as the direct influence of one human being on another apart from use of the physical environment as an intermediary. A smile, a frown, a rebuke, a word of warning or encouragement, all involve some physical change. Otherwise, the attitude of one would not get over to alter the attitude of another.

In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available to other experiences.

A tribe, let us say, is warlike. The successes for which it strives, the achievements upon which it sets store, are connected with fighting and victory.