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

The development occurs through reciprocal give-and-take, the teacher taking but not being afraid also to give.

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 whose activities are associated with others has a social environment. What he does and what he can do depend upon the expectations, demands, approvals, and condemnations of others.

Purposeful action is thus the goal of all that is truly educative.

The devotion of democracy to education is a familiar fact. The superficial explanation is that a government resting upon popular suffrage cannot be successful unless those who elect and who obey their governors are educated. Since a democratic society repudiates the principle of external authority, it must find a substitute in voluntary disposition and interest; these can be created only by education.

If we learn not humility, we learn nothing.