The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education — or that the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth.

The relationships of our present social life are so numerous and so interwoven that a child placed in the most favorable position could not readily share in many of the most important of them. Not sharing in them, their meaning would not be communicated to him, would not become a part of his own mental disposition. There would be no seeing the trees because of the forest. Business, politics, art, science, religion, would make all at once a clamor for attention; confusion would be the outcome.

I believe that in this way the teacher always is the prophet of the true God and the usherer in of the true kingdom of God.

Without initiation into the scientific spirit one is not in possession of the best tools which humanity has so far devised for effectively directed reflection. One in that case not merely conducts inquiry and learning without the use of the best instruments, but fails to understand the full meaning of knowledge.

Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone's knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier.

The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to feel important.

Resort to military force is a first sure sign that we are giving up the struggle for the democratic way of life, and that the Old World has conquered morally as well as geographically succeeding in imposing upon us its ideals and methods.