I believe that the community's duty to education is, therefore, its paramount moral duty. By law and punishment, by social agitation and discussion, society can regulate and form itself in a more or less haphazard and chance way. But through education society can formulate its own purposes, can organize its own means and resources, and thus shape itself with definiteness and economy in the direction in which it wishes to move.

One might as well say he has sold when no one has bought as to say he has taught when no one has learned.

Men live in a community in virtue of the things which they have in common; and communication is the way in which they come to possess things in common. What they must have in common in order to form a community or society are aims, beliefs, aspirations, knowledge - a common understanding - likemindedness as the sociologists say.

It may be said that an education which does not succeed in making poetry a resource in the business of life as well as in its leisure, has something the matter with it.

Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone's knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier.

You cannot teach today the same way you did yesterday to prepare students for tomorrow.

As a child lives today, he will live tomorrow.