Nothing takes root in mind when there is no balance between doing and receiving.

Mind is a verb not a noun.

In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available to other experiences.

How can the child learn to be a free and responsible citizen when the teacher is bound?

Liberty is not just an idea, an abstract principle. It is power, effective power to do specific things. There is no such thing as liberty in general; liberty, so to speak, at large.

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 struggle for democracy has to be maintained on as many fronts as culture has aspects: political, economic, international, educational, scientific and artistic, religious.