Society not only continues to exist by transmission, by communication, but it may fairly be said to exist in transmission, in communication.

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.

What's in a question, you ask? Everything. It is evoking stimulating response or stultifying inquiry. It is, in essence, the very core of teaching.

Every teacher should realize the dignity of his calling.

One code prevails in the family; another, on the street; a third, in the workshop or store; a fourth, in the religious association. As a person passes from one of the environments to another, he is subjected to antagonistic pulls, and is in danger of being split into a being having different standards of judgment and emotion for different occasions. This danger imposes upon the school a steadying and integrating office.

I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.

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