A good aim surveys the present state of experience of pupils, and forming a tentative plan of treatment, keeps the plan constantly in view and yet modifies it as conditions develop. The aim, in short, is experimental, and hence constantly growing as it is tested in action.

All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate.

Purposeful action is thus the goal of all that is truly educative.

Inside the modern city, in spite of its nominal political unity, there are probably more communities, more differing customs, traditions, aspirations, and forms of government or control, than existed in an entire continent at an earlier epoch.

To savages it would seem preposterous to seek out a place where nothing but learning was going on in order that one might learn.

While every social arrangement is educative in effect, the educative effect first becomes an important part of the purpose of the association in connection with the association of the older with the younger.

Schools have ignored the value of experience and chosen to teach by pouring in.