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.

Intellectually religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it.

Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril.

Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.

As societies become more complex in structure and resources, the need of formal or intentional teaching and learning increases.

The young of human beings compare so poorly in original efficiency with the young of many of the lower animals, that even the powers needed for physical sustentation have to be acquired under tuition. How much more, then, is this the case with respect to all the technological, artistic, scientific, and moral achievements of humanity!

Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.