The central problem of an education based upon experience is to select the kind of present experience that live fruitfully and creatively in subsequent experiences.

A society with too few independent thinkers is vulnerable to control by disturbed and opportunistic leaders. A society which wants to create and maintain a free and democratic social system must create responsible independence of thought among its young.

The experience has to be formulated in order to be communicated.

Nature as a whole is a progressive realization of purpose strictly comparable to the realization of purpose in any single plant or animal.

To be a recipient of a communication is to have an enlarged and changed experience. One shares in what another has thought and felt and in so far, meagerly or amply, has his own attitude modified.

Teachers are the agents through which knowledge and skills are communicated and rules of conduct enforced.

Philosophy recovers itself when it ceases to be a device for dealing with the problems of philosophers and becomes a method, cultivated by philosophers, for dealing with the problems of men.