Individuals are certainly interested, at times, in having their own way, and their own way may go contrary to the ways of others. But they are also interested, and chiefly interested upon the whole, in entering into the activities of others and taking part in conjoint and cooperative doings. Otherwise, no such thing as a community would be possible.

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

Purposeful action is thus the goal of all that is truly educative.

There is not, in fact, any such thing as the direct influence of one human being on another apart from use of the physical environment as an intermediary. A smile, a frown, a rebuke, a word of warning or encouragement, all involve some physical change. Otherwise, the attitude of one would not get over to alter the attitude of another.

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

Cease conceiving of education as mere preparation for later life, and make it the full meaning of the present life.

Change as change is mere flux and lapse; it insults intelligence. Genuinely to know is to grasp a permanent end that realizes itself through changes.