The most important factor in the training of good mental habits consists in acquiring the attitude of suspended conclusion, and in mastering the various methods of searching for new materials to corroborate or to refute the first suggestions that occur.

All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate.

What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all of its children.

I believe that in the ideal school we have the reconciliation of the individualistic and the institutional ideals.

It requires troublesome work to undertake the alteration of old beliefs.

In a world that has so largely engaged in a mad and often brutally harsh race for material gain by means of ruthless competition, it behooves the school to make ceaseless and intelligently organized effort to develop above all else the will for co-operation and the spirit which sees in every other individual one who has an equal right to share in the cultural and material fruits of collective human invention, industry, skill and knowledge

But the individual butterfly or earthquake remains just the unique existence which it is. We forget in explaining its occurrence that it is only the occurrence that is explained, not the thing itself.