A being whose activities are associated with others has a social environment. What he does and what he can do depend upon the expectations, demands, approvals, and condemnations of others.

Method means that arrangement of subject matter which makes it most effective in use. Never is method something outside of the material.

We do not learn from experience...we learn from reflecting on experience.

Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.

It has been petrified into a slavery of thought and sentiment, as intolerant superiority on the part of the few and an intolerable burden on the part of the many.

Modern life means democracy, democracy means freeing intelligence for independent effectivenessthe emancipation of mind as an individual organ to do its own work. We naturally associate democracy, to be sure, with freedom of action, but freedom of action without freed capacity of thought behind it is only chaos.

The conduct of schools, based upon a new order of conception, is so much more difficult than is the management of schools which walk the beaten path.