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.

Every teacher should realize the dignity of his calling.

Forty years spent in wandering in a wilderness like that of the present is not a sad fate - unless one attempts to make himself believe that the wilderness is after all itself the promised land.

The future of our civilisation depends upon the widening spread and deepening hold of the scientific habit of mind.

Historically the great movements for human liberation have always been movements to change institutions and not to preserve them intact. It follows from what has been said that there have been movements to bring about a changed distribution of power to do - and power to think and to express thought is a power to do- so that there would be a more balanced, a more equal, even, and equitable system of human liberties.

The primary ineluctable facts of the birth and death of each one of the constituent members in a social group determine the necessity of education.

A being connected with other beings cannot perform his own activities without taking the activities of others into account. For they are the indispensable conditions of the realization of his tendencies. When he moves he stirs them and reciprocally.