Independent self-reliant people would be a counterproductive anachronism in the collective society of the future where people will be defined by their associations.

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

Education is not an affair of 'telling' and being told, but an active and constructive process.

Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.

To avoid a split between what men consciously know because they are aware of having learned it by a specific job of learning, and what they unconsciously know because they have absorbed it in the formation of their characters by intercourse with others, becomes an increasingly delicate task with every development of special schooling.

Within even the most social group there are many relations that are not as yet social.

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