Written symbols are even more artificial or conventional than spoken; they cannot be picked up in accidental intercourse with others. In addition, the written form tends to select and record matters which are comparatively foreign to everyday life.

One of the saddest things about US education is that the wisdom of our most successful teachers is lost to the profession when they retire.

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

Knowledge is no longer an immobile solid; it has been liquefied. it is actively moving in all the currents of society itself

Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.

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

Our historic imagination is at best slightly developed. We generalise and idealise the past egregiously. We set up little toys to stand as symbols for centuries and the complicated lives of countless individuals.