Education, in its broadest sense, is the means of this social continuity of life.

Confidence is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life.

If humanity has made some headway in realizing that the ultimate value of every institution is its distinctively human effect - its effect upon conscious experience - we may well believe that this lesson has been learned largely through dealings with the young.

The primary ineluctable facts of the birth and death of each one of the constituent members in a social group determine the necessity of education.

There is nothing left worth preserving in the notions of unseen powers, controlling human destiny, to which obedience and worship are due.

The bad man is the man who no matter how good he has been is beginning to deteriorate, to grow less good. The good man is the man who no matter how morally unworthy he has been is moving to become better. Such a conception makes one severe in judging himself and humane in judging others.

Perhaps the greatest of all pedagogical fallacies is the notion that a person learns only the particular thing he is studying at the time.