It is difficult to connect general principles with such thoroughly concrete things as children.

The outstanding problem of the Public is discovery and identification of itself

I believe that the school must represent present life - life as real and vital to the child as that which he carries on in the home, in the neighborhood, or on the play-ground.

A book or a letter may institute a more intimate association between human beings separated thousands of miles from each other than exists between dwellers under the same roof.

The best preparation for the future is a well-spent today.

As we have seen there is some kind of continuity in any case since every experience affects for better or worse the attitudes which help decide the quality of further experiences, by setting up certain preference and aversion, and making it easier or harder to act for this or that end.

The future of our civilisation depends upon the widening spread and deepening hold of the scientific habit of mind.