Art is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers, painters, musicians; it is the authentic expression of any and all individuality.

To savages it would seem preposterous to seek out a place where nothing but learning was going on in order that one might learn.

We do not learn from experience...we learn from reflecting on experience.

As formal teaching and training grow in extent, there is the danger of creating an undesirable split between the experience gained in more direct associations and what is acquired in school. This danger was never greater than at the present time, on account of the rapid growth in the last few centuries of knowledge and technical modes of skill.

In a world that has so largely engaged in a mad and often brutally harsh race for material gain by means of ruthless competition, it behooves the school to make ceaseless and intelligently organized effort to develop above all else the will for co-operation and the spirit which sees in every other individual one who has an equal right to share in the cultural and material fruits of collective human invention, industry, skill and knowledge

Since in reality there is nothing to which growth is relative save more growth, there is nothing to which education is subordinate save more education.‎

The problem is to extract the desirable traits of forms of community life which actually exist, and employ them to criticize undesirable features and suggest improvement