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.

I believe that the only true education comes through the stimulation of the child's powers by the demands of the social situations in which he finds himself.

Religions have been universal in the sense that all the people we know anything about have had a religion. But the differences among them are so great and so shocking that any common element that can be extracted is meaningless.... The older apologists for Christianity seem to have been better advised than some modern ones in condemning every religion but one as an impostor, as at bottom some kind of demon worship or at any rate a superstitious figment.

The school has the function of coordinating within the disposition of each individual the diverse influences of the various social environments into which he enters.

Education must be understood as growth, or the facilitation of growth.

Time with his old flail Beat me full sore; Till: Hold, I cried, I'll stand no more. Then I heard a wail And looking spied How love's little bow Had laid time low.

Teaching may be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless somebody buys.