Education must be understood as growth, or the facilitation of growth.

Teachers are the agents through which knowledge and skills are communicated and rules of conduct enforced.

Time with his old flail Beat me full sore; Till: Hold, I cried, I'll stand no more. Then I heard a wail And looking spied How love's little bow Had laid time low.

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

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.

To avoid a split between what men consciously know because they are aware of having learned it by a specific job of learning, and what they unconsciously know because they have absorbed it in the formation of their characters by intercourse with others, becomes an increasingly delicate task with every development of special schooling.

The activity of the immature human being is simply played upon to secure habits which are useful. He is trained like an animal rather than educated like a human being. His instincts remain attached to their original objects of pain or pleasure. But to get happiness or to avoid the pain of failure he has to act in a way agreeable to others.