How can the child learn to be a free and responsible citizen when the teacher is bound?

Language exists only when it is listened to as well as spoken. The hearer is an indispensable partner.

We never educate directly, but indirectly by means of the environment. Whether we permit chance environments to do the work, or whether we design environments for the purpose makes a great difference.

A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience.

The struggle for democracy has to be maintained on as many fronts as culture has aspects: political, economic, international, educational, scientific and artistic, religious.

The spontaneous power of the child, his demand for self-expression, can not by any possibility be suppressed.

We always live at the time we live and not at some other time, and only by extracting at each present time the full meaning of each present experience are we prepared for doing the same thing in the future.