A response is not just a re-action, a protest, as it were, against being disturbed; it is, as the word indicates, an answer. It meets the stimulus, and corresponds with it.

All education which develops power to share effectively in social life is moral.

We cannot set up, out of our heads, something we regard as an ideal society.

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.

Vocational training is the training of animals or slaves. It fits them to become cogs in the industrial machine. Free men need liberal education to prepare them to make a good use of their freedom.

There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.

There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction.