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.

Education is not an affair of 'telling' and being told, but an active and constructive process.

As some species die out, forms better adapted to utilize the obstacles against which they struggled in vain come into being.

A man really living alone (alone mentally as well as physically) would have little or no occasion to reflect upon his past experience to extract its net meaning.

What holds for adults holds even more for children, sensitive and conscious of differences. I certainly hope that the Board of Education will think very, very seriously before it introduces this division and antagonism in our public schools.

The aim of education is growth: the aim of growth is more growth

To the being of fully alive, the future is not ominous but a promise; it surrounds the present like a halo.