Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone's knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier.

The most important factor in the training of good mental habits consists in acquiring the attitude of suspended conclusion, and in mastering the various methods of searching for new materials to corroborate or to refute the first suggestions that occur.

Of these three words, direction, control, and guidance, the last best conveys the idea of assisting through cooperation the natural capacities of the individuals guided; control conveys rather the notion of an energy brought to bear from without and meeting some resistance from the one controlled; direction is a more neutral term and suggests the fact that the active tendencies of those directed are led in a certain continuous course, instead of dispersing aimlessly.

What accumulated knowledge exists in low grade societies is at least put into practice; it is transmuted into character; it exists with the depth of meaning that attaches to its coming within urgent daily interests.

Language exists only when it is listened to as well as spoken. The hearer is an indispensable partner.

Democracy is a form of government only because it is a form of moral and spiritual association.

The conduct of schools, based upon a new order of conception, is so much more difficult than is the management of schools which walk the beaten path.