Creative thinking will improve as we relate the new fact to the old and all facts to each other.

Men live in a community in virtue of the things which they have in common; and communication is the way in which they come to possess things in common. What they must have in common in order to form a community or society are aims, beliefs, aspirations, knowledge - a common understanding - likemindedness as the sociologists say.

If humanity has made some headway in realizing that the ultimate value of every institution is its distinctively human effect - its effect upon conscious experience - we may well believe that this lesson has been learned largely through dealings with the young.

Thought is impossible without words.

Society exists through a process of transmission quite as much as biological life. This transmission occurs by means of communication of habits of doing, thinking, and feeling from the older to the younger.

Confidence is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life.

If there is one conclusion to which human experience unmistakably points it is that democratic ends demand democratic methods for their realization.