When others are not doing what we would like them to or are threatening disobedience, we are most conscious of the need of controlling them and of the influences by which they are controlled.

Some things which are remote in space and time from a living creature, especially a human creature, may form his environment even more truly than some of the things close to him.

Communication of science as subject-matter has so far outrun in education the construction of a scientific habit of mind that to some extent the natural common sense of mankind has been interfered with to its detriment.

As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.

Giving and taking of orders modifies actions and results, but does not of itself effect a sharing of purposes, a communication of interests.

We talk much more about individualism and liberty than our ancestors. But as so often happens, when anything becomes conscious, the consciousness is compensatory for absence in practice.

The aim of education is growth: the aim of growth is more growth