It is commonplace that a problem stated is well on its way to solution, for statement of the nature of a problem signifies that the underlying quality is being transformed into determinate distinctions of terms and relations or has become an object of articulate thought.

As believers in democracy we have not only the right but the duty to question existing mechanisms of, say, suffrage and to inquire whether some functional organization would not serve to formulate and manifest public opinion better than the existing methods. It is not irrelevant to the point that a score of passages could be cited in which Jefferson refers to the American Government as an experiment.

Were all instructors to realize that the quality of mental process, not the production of correct answers, is the measure of educative growth something hardly less than a revolution in teaching would be worked.

If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist.

Etymologically, the word education means just a process of leading or bringing up.

The teacher loses the position of external boss or dictator but takes on that of leader of group activities

We do not learn from experience...we learn from reflecting on experience.