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.

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

That the ulterior significance of every mode of human association lies in the contribution which it makes to the improvement of the quality of experience is a fact most easily recognized in dealing with the immature.

Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.

Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates invention. It shocks us out of sheep-like passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving…conflict is a sine qua non of reflection and ingenuity.

The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education — or that the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth.

Even today, in our industrial life, apart from certain values of industriousness and thrift, the intellectual and emotional reaction of the forms of human association under which the world's work is carried on receives little attention as compared with physical output.