The acquisition however perfectly of skills is not an end in itself. They are things to be put to use as a contribution to a common and shared life.

Schools should take an active part in directing social change, and share in the construction of a new social order

Society exists through a process of transmission quite as much as biological life. This transmission occurs by means of communication of habits of doing, thinking, and feeling from the older to the younger.

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

That which distinguishes the Soviet system both from other national systems and from the progressive schools of other countries is the conscious control of every educational procedure by reference to a single and comprehensive social purpose.

All genuine learning comes through experience.

In England, philosophers are honoured, respected; they rise to public offices, they are buried with the kings... In France warrants are issued against them, they are persecuted, pelted with pastoral letters: Do we see that England is any the worse for it?