To be born, to live and to die is merely to change forms... And what does one form matter any more than another?... Each form has its own sort of happiness and unhappiness. From the elephant down to the flea... from the flea down to the sensitive and living molecule which is the origin of all, there is not a speck in the whole of nature that does not feel pain or pleasure.

Communication is a process of sharing experience till it becomes a common possession. It modifies the disposition of both the parties who partake in it.

A child may have to be snatched with roughness away from a fire so that he shall not be burnt.

If there is one conclusion to which human experience unmistakably points it is that democratic ends demand democratic methods for their realization.

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. Genuine ignorance is profitable because it is likely to be accompanied by humility, curiosity, and open-mindedness; whereas ability to repeat catch-phrases, can't terms, familiar propositions, gives the conceit of learning and coats the mind with varnish waterproof to new ideas.

The interaction of knowledge and skills with experience is key to learning.

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.‎