Good manners come, as we say, from good breeding or rather are good breeding; and breeding is acquired by habitual action, in response to habitual stimuli, not by conveying information.

Knowledge is no longer an immobile solid; it has been liquefied. it is actively moving in all the currents of society itself

The school must be "a genuine form of active community life, instead of a place set apart in which to learn lessons".

The need for growth - what we might call immaturity - is not a negative state of being.

To have an idea of a thing is not just to get certain sensations from it. It is to be able to respond to the thing in view of its place in an inclusive scheme of action; it is to foresee the drift and probable consequence of the action of the thing upon us and of our action upon it.

A book or a letter may institute a more intimate association between human beings separated thousands of miles from each other than exists between dwellers under the same roof.

Thinking is the accurate and deliberate instituting of connections between what is done and its consequences.