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.

We never educate directly, but indirectly by means of the environment. Whether we permit chance environments to do the work, or whether we design environments for the purpose makes a great difference.

Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.

What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all of its children.

The scientific-religious conflict ultimately is a conflict between allegiance to this method and allegiance to even an irreducible minimum of belief so fixed in advance that it can never be modified.

Criticism of the commitment of religion to the supernatural is thus positive in import.

The real purveyors of the news are artists, for artists are the ones who infuse fact with perception, emotion, and appreciation...We are beginning to realize that emotions and imagination are more potent in shaping public sentiment and opinion than information and reason.