I know that there are many persons to whom it seems derogatory to link a body of philosophic ideas to the social life and cultureof their epoch. They seem to accept a dogma of immaculate conception of philosophical systems.

One of the saddest things about US education is that the wisdom of our most successful teachers is lost to the profession when they retire.

What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all of its children.

Cease conceiving of education as mere preparation for later life, and make it the full meaning of the present life.

When the child sees the parent looking for something, it is as natural for it also to look for the object and to give it over when it finds it, as it was, under other circumstances, to receive it. Multiply such an instance by the thousand details of daily intercourse, and one has a picture of the most permanent and enduring method of giving direction to the activities of the young.

Not perfection as a final goal, but the ever-enduring process of perfecting, maturing, refining is the aim of living.

There is nothing left worth preserving in the notions of unseen powers, controlling human destiny, to which obedience and worship are due.