Every one of the constituent elements of a social group, in a modern city as in a savage tribe, is born immature, helpless, without language, beliefs, ideas, or social standards. Each individual, each unit who is the carrier of the life-experience of his group, in time passes away. Yet the life of the group goes on.

All genuine education comes about through experience.

Consensus demands communication.

Our historic imagination is at best slightly developed. We generalise and idealise the past egregiously. We set up little toys to stand as symbols for centuries and the complicated lives of countless individuals.

Of what use, educationally speaking, is it to be able to see the end in the beginning?

There's all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.

Everything depends on the quality of the experience which is had.