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

Teaching can be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless someone buys ... yet there are teachers who think they have done a good day's teaching irrespective of what the pupils have learned.

Every society gets encumbered with what is trivial, with dead wood from the past, and with what is positively perverse.

most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.

Even today, in our industrial life, apart from certain values of industriousness and thrift, the intellectual and emotional reaction of the forms of human association under which the world's work is carried on receives little attention as compared with physical output.

There is no greater egoism than that of learning when it is treated simply as a mark of personal distinction to be held and cherished for its own sake. ... [K]knowledge is a possession held in trust for the furthering of the well-being of all

The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education — or that the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth.