Mere physical growing up, mere mastery of the bare necessities of subsistence will not suffice to reproduce the life of the group. Deliberate effort and the taking of thoughtful pains are required.

The spontaneous power of the child, his demand for self-expression, can not by any possibility be suppressed.

Creative thinking will improve as we relate the new fact to the old and all facts to each other.

It is difficult to connect general principles with such thoroughly concrete things as children.

One might as well say he has sold when no one has bought as to say he has taught when no one has learned.

The importance of language in gaining knowledge is doubtless the chief cause of the common notion that knowledge may be passed directly from one to another. It almost seems as if all we have to do to convey an idea into the mind of another is to convey a sound into his ear. Thus imparting knowledge gets assimilated to a purely physical process.

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.