The bare fact that language consists of sounds which are mutually intelligible is enough of itself to show that its meaning depends upon connection with a shared experience.

By various agencies, unintentional and designed, a society transforms uninitiated and seemingly alien beings into robust trustees of its own resources and ideals. Education is thus a fostering, a nurturing, a cultivating, process.

In general, every stimulus directs activity. It does not simply excite it or stir it up, but directs it toward an object.

Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.

a problem well put is half solved.

When the child sees the parent looking for something, it is as natural for it also to look for the object and to give it over when it finds it, as it was, under other circumstances, to receive it. Multiply such an instance by the thousand details of daily intercourse, and one has a picture of the most permanent and enduring method of giving direction to the activities of the young.

Not perfection as a final goal, but the ever-enduring process of perfecting, maturing, refining is the aim of living.