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.

Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.

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.

The development occurs through reciprocal give-and-take, the teacher taking but not being afraid also to give.

I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.

Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.

It is the office of the school environment to balance the various elements in the social environment, and to see to it that each individual gets an opportunity to escape from the limitations of the social group in which he was born, and to come into living contact with a broader environment.