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.

Collateral learning in the way of formation of enduring attitudes, of likes and dislikes, may be and often is much more important than the spelling lesson or lesson in geography or history that is learned.

Schools have ignored the value of experience and chosen to teach by pouring in.

Where there is giving there must be taking.

A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience.

Cease conceiving of education as mere preparation for later life, and make it the full meaning of the present life.

The school has the function of coordinating within the disposition of each individual the diverse influences of the various social environments into which he enters.