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

Perhaps the greatest of all pedagogical fallacies is the notion that a person learns only the particular thing he is studying at the time.

The religious is any activity pursued in behalf of an ideal end against obstacles and in spite of threats of personal loss because of its general and enduring value.

For in spite of itself any movement that thinks and acts in terms of an ‘ism becomes so involved in reaction against other ‘isms that it is unwittingly controlled by them. For it then forms its principles by reaction against them instead of by a comprehensive, constructive survey of actual needs, problems, and possibilities.

I believe that in this way the teacher always is the prophet of the true God and the usherer in of the true kingdom of God.

As societies become more complex in structure and resources, the need of formal or intentional teaching and learning increases.

Giving and taking of orders modifies actions and results, but does not of itself effect a sharing of purposes, a communication of interests.