Experience alone cannot deliver to us necessary truths; truths completely demonstrated by reason. Its conclusions are particular, not universal.

Hunger not to have, but to be

Confidence is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life.

If there is one conclusion to which human experience unmistakably points it is that democratic ends demand democratic methods for their realization.

The conduct of schools, based upon a new order of conception, is so much more difficult than is the management of schools which walk the beaten path.

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

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.