Always make the other person feel important.

The need for growth - what we might call immaturity - is not a negative state of being.

As believers in democracy we have not only the right but the duty to question existing mechanisms of, say, suffrage and to inquire whether some functional organization would not serve to formulate and manifest public opinion better than the existing methods. It is not irrelevant to the point that a score of passages could be cited in which Jefferson refers to the American Government as an experiment.

It is difficult to connect general principles with such thoroughly concrete things as children.

We never educate directly, but indirectly by means of the environment. Whether we permit chance environments to do the work, or whether we design environments for the purpose makes a great difference.

The reactionaries are in possession of force, in not only the army and police, but in the press and the schools

The result of the educative process is capacity for further education.