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.

Language exists only when it is listened to as well as spoken. The hearer is an indispensable partner.

I know that there are many persons to whom it seems derogatory to link a body of philosophic ideas to the social life and cultureof their epoch. They seem to accept a dogma of immaculate conception of philosophical systems.

Every society gets encumbered with what is trivial, with dead wood from the past, and with what is positively perverse.

The reactionaries are in possession of force, in not only the army and police, but in the press and the schools

I believe that in the ideal school we have the reconciliation of the individualistic and the institutional ideals.

It is the office of the school environment to balance the various elements in the social environment, and to see to it that each individual gets an opportunity to escape from the limitations of the social group in which he was born, and to come into living contact with a broader environment.