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.

Communication is a process of sharing experience till it becomes a common possession. It modifies the disposition of both the parties who partake in it.

We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.

Etymologically, the word education means just a process of leading or bringing up.

Adults are naturally most conscious of directing the conduct of others when they are immediately aiming so to do. As a rule, they have such an aim consciously when they find themselves resisted; when others are doing things they do not wish them to do. But the more permanent and influential modes of control are those which operate from moment to moment continuously without such deliberate intention on our part.

Art is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers, painters, musicians; it is the authentic expression of any and all individuality.

What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all of its children.