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

Men live in a community in virtue of the things which they have in common; and communication is the way in which they come to possess things in common. What they must have in common in order to form a community or society are aims, beliefs, aspirations, knowledge - a common understanding - likemindedness as the sociologists say.

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.

But the individual butterfly or earthquake remains just the unique existence which it is. We forget in explaining its occurrence that it is only the occurrence that is explained, not the thing itself.

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

The need for growth, for development, for change, is fundamental to life.

Some things which are remote in space and time from a living creature, especially a human creature, may form his environment even more truly than some of the things close to him.