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.

All communication is like art. It may fairly be said, therefore, that any social arrangement that remains vitally social, or vitally shared, is educative to those who participate in it. Only when it becomes cast in a mold and runs in a routine way does it lose its educative power.

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

Teaching may be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless somebody buys.

Talk of democracy has little content when big business rules the life of the country through its control of the means of production, exchange, the press and other means of publicity, propaganda and communication.

Continuity of life means continual readaptation of the environment to the needs of living organisms.

Beings who are born not only unaware of, but quite indifferent to, the aims and habits of the social group have to be rendered cognizant of them and actively interested. Education, and education alone, spans the gap.