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

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

There is no common understanding, and no community life. But in a shared activity, each person refers what he is doing to what the other is doing and vice-versa.

What's in a question, you ask? Everything. It is evoking stimulating response or stultifying inquiry. It is, in essence, the very core of teaching.

The teacher loses the position of external boss or dictator but takes on that of leader of group activities

Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites.

Doctrine that eliminates or even obscures the function of choice of values and enlistment of desires and emotions in behalf of those chosen weakens personal responsibility for judgment and for action. It thus helps create the attitudes that welcome and support the totalitarian state.