Understanding one another means that objects, including sounds, have the same value for both with respect to carrying on a common pursuit.

A child may have to be snatched with roughness away from a fire so that he shall not be burnt.

Human nature exists and operates in an environment. And it is not 'in' that environment as coins are in a box, but as a plant is in the sunlight and soil.

To be a recipient of a communication is to have an enlarged and changed experience. One shares in what another has thought and felt and in so far, meagerly or amply, has his own attitude modified.

There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts and truths possess educational value in and of themselves is the reason why traditional education reduced the material of education so largely to a diet of predigested materials.

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

Knowledge falters when imagination clips its wings or fears to use them.