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

Men have never fully used [their] powers to advance the good in life, because they have waited upon some power external to themselves and to nature to do the work they are responsible for doing.

Teaching can be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless someone buys ... yet there are teachers who think they have done a good day's teaching irrespective of what the pupils have learned.

Every society gets encumbered with what is trivial, with dead wood from the past, and with what is positively perverse.

Unless our laboratory results are to give us artificialities, mere scientific curiosities, they must be subjected to interpretation by gradual re-approximation to conditions of life.

The need for growth, for development, for change, is fundamental to life.

Not only is social life identical with communication, but all communication (and hence all genuine social life) is educative.