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

Everything depends on the quality of the experience which is had.

There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts and truths possess educational value in and of themselves is the reason why traditional education reduced the material of education so largely to a diet of predigested materials.

Education is a regulation of the process of coming to share in the social consciousness; and that the adjustment of individual activity on the basis of this social consciousness is the only sure method of social reconstruction.

Thinking and feeling that have to do with action in association with others is as much a social mode of behavior as is the most overt cooperative or hostile act.

Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril.

Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.