The school has the function of coordinating within the disposition of each individual the diverse influences of the various social environments into which he enters.

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

Everything which bars freedom and fullness of communication sets up barriers that divide human beings into sets and cliques, into antagonistic sects and factions, and thereby undermines the democratic way of life.

A being connected with other beings cannot perform his own activities without taking the activities of others into account. For they are the indispensable conditions of the realization of his tendencies. When he moves he stirs them and reciprocally.

There is no common understanding, and no community life. But in a shared activity, each person refers what he is doing to what the other is doing and vice-versa.

Hunger not to have, but to be

Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.