When "reality" is sought for at large, it is without intellectual import; at most the term carries the connotation of an agreeableemotional state.

Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites.

Politics is the shadow cast on society by big business.

There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts and truths possess educational value in and of themselves is the reason why traditional education reduced the material of education so largely to a diet of predigested materials.

To savages it would seem preposterous to seek out a place where nothing but learning was going on in order that one might learn.

All communication is like art. It may fairly be said, therefore, that any social arrangement that remains vitally social, or vitally shared, is educative to those who participate in it. Only when it becomes cast in a mold and runs in a routine way does it lose its educative power.

A large part of the art of instruction lies in making the difficulty of new problems large enough to challenge thought, and small enough so that, in addition to the confusion naturally attending the novel elements, there shall be luminous familiar spots from which helpful suggestions may spring.