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.

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

Experience, in short, is not a combination of mind and world, subject and object, method and subject matter, but is a single continuous interaction of a great diversity (literally countless in number) of energies.

All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate.

Education, in its broadest sense, is the means of this social continuity of life.

It may be said that an education which does not succeed in making poetry a resource in the business of life as well as in its leisure, has something the matter with it.

The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.