As formal teaching and training grow in extent, there is the danger of creating an undesirable split between the experience gained in more direct associations and what is acquired in school. This danger was never greater than at the present time, on account of the rapid growth in the last few centuries of knowledge and technical modes of skill.

Thinking and feeling that have to do with action in association with others is as much a social mode of behavior as is the most overt cooperative or hostile act.

Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.

Society not only continues to exist by transmission, by communication, but it may fairly be said to exist in transmission, in communication.

To the being of fully alive, the future is not ominous but a promise; it surrounds the present like a halo.

Everything depends on the quality of the experience which is had.

All genuine learning comes through experience.