Modern life means democracy, democracy means freeing intelligence for independent effectivenessthe emancipation of mind as an individual organ to do its own work. We naturally associate democracy, to be sure, with freedom of action, but freedom of action without freed capacity of thought behind it is only chaos.

As some species die out, forms better adapted to utilize the obstacles against which they struggled in vain come into being.

Education must be understood as growth, or the facilitation of growth.

Independent self-reliant people would be a counterproductive anachronism in the collective society of the future where people will be defined by their associations.

Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.

Schools have ignored the value of experience and chosen to teach by pouring in.

There is not, in fact, any such thing as the direct influence of one human being on another apart from use of the physical environment as an intermediary. A smile, a frown, a rebuke, a word of warning or encouragement, all involve some physical change. Otherwise, the attitude of one would not get over to alter the attitude of another.