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.

The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to feel important.

The words "environment," "medium" denote something more than surroundings which encompass an individual. They denote the specific continuity of the surroundings with his own active tendencies.

Education is a regulation of the process of coming to share in the social consciousness; and that the adjustment of individual activity on the basis of this social consciousness is the only sure method of social reconstruction.

The teacher loses the position of external boss or dictator but takes on that of leader of group activities

Consensus demands communication.

The reactionaries are in possession of force, in not only the army and police, but in the press and the schools