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

Society not only continues to exist by transmission, by communication, but it may fairly be said to exist in transmission, in communication.

Language exists only when it is listened to as well as spoken. The hearer is an indispensable partner.

How many students ... were rendered callous to ideas, and how many lost the impetus to learn because of the way in which learning was experienced by them?

Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.

Such words as "society" and "community" are likely to be misleading, for they have a tendency to make us think there is a single thing corresponding to the single word.

You cannot teach today the same way you did yesterday to prepare students for tomorrow.