Many of the obstacles for change which have been attributed to human nature are in fact due to the inertia of institutions and to the voluntary desire of powerful classes to maintain the existing status.

There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.

Despite the never ending play of conscious correction and instruction, the surrounding atmosphere and spirit is in the end the chief agent in forming manners.

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

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

Forty years spent in wandering in a wilderness like that of the present is not a sad fate - unless one attempts to make himself believe that the wilderness is after all itself the promised land.

The plea for the predominance of learning to read in early school life because of the great importance attaching to literature seems to be a perversion.