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.

Hunger not to have, but to be

Just because life signifies not bare passive existence (supposing there is such a thing), but a way of acting, environment or medium signifies what enters into this activity as a sustaining or frustrating condition.

Education is not an affair of 'telling' and being told, but an active and constructive process.

Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.

As societies become more complex in structure and resources, the need of formal or intentional teaching and learning increases.

Every one of the constituent elements of a social group, in a modern city as in a savage tribe, is born immature, helpless, without language, beliefs, ideas, or social standards. Each individual, each unit who is the carrier of the life-experience of his group, in time passes away. Yet the life of the group goes on.