There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts and truths possess educational value in and of themselves is the reason why traditional education reduced the material of education so largely to a diet of predigested materials.

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.

To the being of fully alive, the future is not ominous but a promise; it surrounds the present like a halo.

Within even the most social group there are many relations that are not as yet social.

Politics is the shadow cast on society by big business.

Every teacher should realize the dignity of his calling.

I believe that the only true education comes through the stimulation of the child's powers by the demands of the social situations in which he finds himself.