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

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. What are now working conceptions, employed as a matter of course because they have withstood the tests of experiment and have emerged triumphant, were once speculative hypotheses.

We cannot think of ourselves save as to some extent social being. Hence, we cannot separate the idea of ourselves and our own good from our idea of others and their good.

A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience.

To feel the meaning of what one is doing, and to rejoice in that meaning; to unite in one concurrent fact the unfolding of the inner life and the ordered development of material conditions--that is art.

Independent self-reliant people would be a counterproductive anachronism in the collective society of the future where people will be defined by their associations.

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.