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.

The reactionaries are in possession of force, in not only the army and police, but in the press and the schools

Fundamental modes of speech, the bulk of the vocabulary, are formed in the ordinary intercourse of life, carried on not as a set means of instruction but as a social necessity.

I believe that the only true education comes through the stimulation of the child's powers by the demands of the social situations in which he finds himself.

Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.

Nothing takes root in mind when there is no balance between doing and receiving.

Too rarely is the individual teacher so free from the dictation of authoritative supervisor, textbook on methods, prescribed course of study, etc., that he can let his mind come to close quarters with the pupil's mind and the subject matter.