Always make the other person feel important.

The method of democracy is to bring conflicts out into the open where their special claims can be seen and appraised, where they can be discussed and judged.

The central problem of an education based upon experience is to select the kind of present experience that live fruitfully and creatively in subsequent experiences.

The school must be "a genuine form of active community life, instead of a place set apart in which to learn lessons".

Experiences in order to be educative must lead out into an expanding world of subject matter, a subject matter of facts or information and of ideas. This condition is satisfied only as the educator views teaching and learning as a continuous process of reconstruction of experience.

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.

Criticism of the commitment of religion to the supernatural is thus positive in import.