Adequate control means that the successive acts are brought into a continuous order; each act not only meets its immediate stimulus but helps the acts which follow.

The end justifies the means only when the means used are such as actually bring about the desired and desirable end.

The ultimate aim of production is not production of goods but the production of free human beings associated with one another on terms of equality.

...the moment of passage from disturbance into harmony is that of intensest life.

You can teach students to develop the ability to think reflectively, and you can help them understand what this means, but if they are not inclined to do so they never will.

The best preparation for the future is a well-spent today.

From the standpoint of the child, the great waste in the school comes from his inability to utilize the experiences he gets outside the school in any complete and free way within the school itself; while, on the other hand, he is unable to apply in daily life what he is learning at school. That is the isolation of the school — its isolation from life.