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.

The teacher loses the position of external boss or dictator but takes on that of leader of group activities

Insight into soul-action, ability to discriminate the genuine from the sham and capacity to further one and discourage the other.

...compartmentalization of occupations and interests bring about a separation of that mode of activity commonly called 'practice' from insight; of imagination from executive 'doing.' Each of these activities is then assigned its own place in which it must abide. Those who write the anatomy of experience then suppose that these divisions inhere in the very constitution of human nature.

As a child lives today, he will live tomorrow.

Just because life signifies not bare passive existence (supposing there is such a thing), but a way of acting, environment or medium signifies what enters into this activity as a sustaining or frustrating condition.

Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.