Knowledge falters when imagination clips its wings or fears to use them.

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.

It may be said that an education which does not succeed in making poetry a resource in the business of life as well as in its leisure, has something the matter with it.

To savages it would seem preposterous to seek out a place where nothing but learning was going on in order that one might learn.

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.

A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience.

Doctrine that eliminates or even obscures the function of choice of values and enlistment of desires and emotions in behalf of those chosen weakens personal responsibility for judgment and for action. It thus helps create the attitudes that welcome and support the totalitarian state.