Experiences in order to be educative must lead out into an expanding world of subject matter, a subject matter of facts or information and of ideas. This condition is satisfied only as the educator views teaching and learning as a continuous process of reconstruction of experience.

Intellectually religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it.

By doing his share in the associated activity, the individual appropriates the purpose which actuates it, becomes familiar with its methods and subject matters, acquires needed skill, and is saturated with its emotional spirit.

Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living. Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live. Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

The real process of education should be the process of learning to think through the application of real problems.

I believe that the only true education comes through the stimulation of the child's powers by the demands of the social situations in which he finds himself.

Without the English, reason and philosophy would still be in the most despicable infancy in France.