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.

The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education ... (and) the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth. Now this idea cannot be applied to all the members of a society except where intercourse of man with man is mutual, and except where there is adequate provision for the reconstruction of social habits and institutions by means of wide stimulation arising from equitably distributed interests. And this means a democratic society.

Adults are naturally most conscious of directing the conduct of others when they are immediately aiming so to do. As a rule, they have such an aim consciously when they find themselves resisted; when others are doing things they do not wish them to do. But the more permanent and influential modes of control are those which operate from moment to moment continuously without such deliberate intention on our part.

There's all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.

It requires troublesome work to undertake the alteration of old beliefs.

Education as growth or maturity should be an ever-present process.

Insight into soul-action, ability to discriminate the genuine from the sham and capacity to further one and discourage the other.