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

Even today, in our industrial life, apart from certain values of industriousness and thrift, the intellectual and emotional reaction of the forms of human association under which the world's work is carried on receives little attention as compared with physical output.

The relationships of our present social life are so numerous and so interwoven that a child placed in the most favorable position could not readily share in many of the most important of them. Not sharing in them, their meaning would not be communicated to him, would not become a part of his own mental disposition. There would be no seeing the trees because of the forest. Business, politics, art, science, religion, would make all at once a clamor for attention; confusion would be the outcome.

Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone's knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier.

Inference is always an invasion of the unknown, a leap from the known.

Continuity of life means continual readaptation of the environment to the needs of living organisms.

Confidence is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life.