The conduct of schools, based upon a new order of conception, is so much more difficult than is the management of schools which walk the beaten path.

As we have seen there is some kind of continuity in any case since every experience affects for better or worse the attitudes which help decide the quality of further experiences, by setting up certain preference and aversion, and making it easier or harder to act for this or that end.

Nothing takes root in mind when there is no balance between doing and receiving.

The problem is to extract the desirable traits of forms of community life which actually exist, and employ them to criticize undesirable features and suggest improvement

Confidence is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life.

In general, every stimulus directs activity. It does not simply excite it or stir it up, but directs it toward an object.

Some experiences are mis-educative. Any experience is mis-educative that has the effect of arresting or distorting the growth of further experience.