The real process of education should be the process of learning to think through the application of real problems.

Experience alone cannot deliver to us necessary truths; truths completely demonstrated by reason. Its conclusions are particular, not universal.

The interaction of knowledge and skills with experience is key to learning.

As a matter of fact, a modern society is many societies more or less loosely connected. Each household with its immediate extension of friends makes a society; the village or street group of playmates is a community; each business group, each club, is another.

Education is a regulation of the process of coming to share in the social consciousness; and that the adjustment of individual activity on the basis of this social consciousness is the only sure method of social reconstruction.

In general, every stimulus directs activity. It does not simply excite it or stir it up, but directs it toward an object.

The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.