Men have never fully used [their] powers to advance the good in life, because they have waited upon some power external to themselves and to nature to do the work they are responsible for doing.

Education as growth or maturity should be an ever-present process.

The experience has to be formulated in order to be communicated.

The school has the function of coordinating within the disposition of each individual the diverse influences of the various social environments into which he enters.

The outstanding problem of the Public is discovery and identification of itself

The intimation never wholly deserts us that there is, in the unformed activities of childhood and youth, the possibilities of a better life for the community as well as for individuals here and there. This dim sense is the ground of our abiding idealization of childhood.

That the ulterior significance of every mode of human association lies in the contribution which it makes to the improvement of the quality of experience is a fact most easily recognized in dealing with the immature.