Cease conceiving of education as mere preparation for later life, and make it the full meaning of the present life.

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

All direction is but re-direction; it shifts the activities already going on into another channel. Unless one is cognizant of the energies which are already in operation, one's attempts at direction will almost surely go amiss.

Of these three words, direction, control, and guidance, the last best conveys the idea of assisting through cooperation the natural capacities of the individuals guided; control conveys rather the notion of an energy brought to bear from without and meeting some resistance from the one controlled; direction is a more neutral term and suggests the fact that the active tendencies of those directed are led in a certain continuous course, instead of dispersing aimlessly.

The ultimate aim of production is not production of goods but the production of free human beings associated with one another on terms of equality.

Not only is social life identical with communication, but all communication (and hence all genuine social life) is educative.

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