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.

The devotion of democracy to education is a familiar fact. . . . [A] government resting upon popular suffrage cannot be successful unless those who elect . . . their governors are educated.

Not perfection as a final goal, but the ever-enduring process of perfecting, maturing, refining is the aim of living.

An idea is a method of evading, circumventing or surmounting through reflection, obstacles that otherwise would have to be attacked by brute force.

An inanimate being is, of course, continuous with its surroundings; but the environing circumstances do not, save metaphorically, constitute an environment. For the inorganic being is not concerned in the influences which affect it.

Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone's knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier.

What nutrition and reproduction are to physiological life, education is to social life.