There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction.

...the moment of passage from disturbance into harmony is that of intensest life.

A person who is trained to consider his actions, to undertake them deliberately, is in so far forth disciplined. Add to this ability a power to endure in an intelligently chosen course in the face of distraction, confusion, and difficulty, and you have the essence of discipline.

Schools should take an active part in directing social change, and share in the construction of a new social order

A society with too few independent thinkers is vulnerable to control by disturbed and opportunistic leaders. A society which wants to create and maintain a free and democratic social system must create responsible independence of thought among its young.

All education which develops power to share effectively in social life is moral.

If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist.