I believe that the teacher's place and work in the school is to be interpreted from this same basis. The teacher is not in the school to impose certain ideas or to form certain habits in the child, but is there as a member of the community to select the influences which shall affect the child and to assist him in properly responding to these influences.

The intellectual content of religions has always finally adapted itself to scientific and social conditions after they have become clear.... For this reason I do not think that those who are concerned about the future of a religious attitude should trouble themselves about the conflict of science with traditional doctrines.

If the eye is constantly greeted by harmonious objects, having elegance of form and color, a standard of taste naturally grows up.

In general, every stimulus directs activity. It does not simply excite it or stir it up, but directs it toward an object.

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

A good aim surveys the present state of experience of pupils, and forming a tentative plan of treatment, keeps the plan constantly in view and yet modifies it as conditions develop. The aim, in short, is experimental, and hence constantly growing as it is tested in action.

Teachers are the agents through which knowledge and skills are communicated and rules of conduct enforced.