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

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. Genuine ignorance is profitable because it is likely to be accompanied by humility, curiosity, and open-mindedness; whereas ability to repeat catch-phrases, can't terms, familiar propositions, gives the conceit of learning and coats the mind with varnish waterproof to new ideas.

As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.

Purposeful action is thus the goal of all that is truly educative.

The bare fact that language consists of sounds which are mutually intelligible is enough of itself to show that its meaning depends upon connection with a shared experience.

I believe that the only true education comes through the stimulation of the child's powers by the demands of the social situations in which he finds himself.

Doctrine that eliminates or even obscures the function of choice of values and enlistment of desires and emotions in behalf of those chosen weakens personal responsibility for judgment and for action. It thus helps create the attitudes that welcome and support the totalitarian state.