There is nothing left worth preserving in the notions of unseen powers, controlling human destiny, to which obedience and worship are due.

A person who is trained to consider his actions, to undertake them deliberately, is in so far forth disciplined. Add to this ability a power to endure in an intelligently chosen course in the face of distraction, confusion, and difficulty, and you have the essence of discipline.

The problem is to extract the desirable traits of forms of community life which actually exist, and employ them to criticize undesirable features and suggest improvement

Of what use, educationally speaking, is it to be able to see the end in the beginning?

To pull at a rope at which others happen to be pulling is not a shared or conjoint activity, unless the pulling is done with knowledge that others are pulling and for the sake of either helping or hindering what they are doing.

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

Traveling is a constant arriving, while arrival that precludes further traveling is most easily attained by going to sleep or dying.