What nutrition and reproduction are to physiological life, education is to social life.

Schools should take an active part in directing social change, and share in the construction of a new social order

Selection aims not only at simplifying but at weeding out what is undesirable.

When "reality" is sought for at large, it is without intellectual import; at most the term carries the connotation of an agreeableemotional state.

Even when a person is frightened by threats into doing something, the threats work only because the person has an instinct of fear. If he has not, or if, though having it, it is under his own control, the threat has no more influence upon him than light has in causing a person to see who has no eyes.

Schools should take part in the great work of construction and organization that will have to be done.

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