If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.

I believe that in the ideal school we have the reconciliation of the individualistic and the institutional ideals.

The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.

Human nature exists and operates in an environment. And it is not 'in' that environment as coins are in a box, but as a plant is in the sunlight and soil.

Method means that arrangement of subject matter which makes it most effective in use. Never is method something outside of the material.

Adults are naturally most conscious of directing the conduct of others when they are immediately aiming so to do. As a rule, they have such an aim consciously when they find themselves resisted; when others are doing things they do not wish them to do. But the more permanent and influential modes of control are those which operate from moment to moment continuously without such deliberate intention on our part.

Knowledge is no longer an immobile solid; it has been liquefied. it is actively moving in all the currents of society itself