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.

Even dogs and horses have their actions modified by association with human beings; they form different habits because human beings are concerned with what they do.

...the moment of passage from disturbance into harmony is that of intensest life.

An inanimate being is, of course, continuous with its surroundings; but the environing circumstances do not, save metaphorically, constitute an environment. For the inorganic being is not concerned in the influences which affect it.

Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites.

Communication is a process of sharing experience till it becomes a common possession. It modifies the disposition of both the parties who partake in it.

What, after all, is the public under present conditions? What are the reasons for its eclipse? What hinders it from finding and identifying itself? By what means shall its inchoate and amorphous estate be organized into effective political action relevant to present social needs and opportunities? What has happened to the public in the century and a half since the theory of political democracy was urged with such assurance and hope?