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

The reactionaries are in possession of force, in not only the army and police, but in the press and the schools

Mind is a verb not a noun.

Intellectually religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it.

Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply ingrained attitudes of aversion and preference.

The primary ineluctable facts of the birth and death of each one of the constituent members in a social group determine the necessity of education.

The central problem of an education based upon experience is to select the kind of present experience that live fruitfully and creatively in subsequent experiences.