Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.

Thought is impossible without words.

Education is a regulation of the process of coming to share in the social consciousness; and that the adjustment of individual activity on the basis of this social consciousness is the only sure method of social reconstruction.

Communication of science as subject-matter has so far outrun in education the construction of a scientific habit of mind that to some extent the natural common sense of mankind has been interfered with to its detriment.

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

There is nothing left worth preserving in the notions of unseen powers, controlling human destiny, to which obedience and worship are due.

The devotion of democracy to education is a familiar fact. . . . [A] government resting upon popular suffrage cannot be successful unless those who elect . . . their governors are educated.