As a society becomes more enlightened, it realizes that it is responsible not to transmit and conserve the whole of its existing achievements, but only such as make for a better future society. The school is its chief agency for the accomplishment of this end.

Since growth is the characteristic of life, education is all one with growing; it has no end beyond itself. The criterion of the value of school education is the extent in which it creates a desire for continuous growth and supplies means for making the desire effective in fact.

The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.

A man really living alone (alone mentally as well as physically) would have little or no occasion to reflect upon his past experience to extract its net meaning.

What nutrition and reproduction are to physiological life, education is to social life.

What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all of its children.

I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.