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

I believe that the only true education comes through the stimulation of the child's powers by the demands of the social situations in which he finds himself.

Even dogs and horses have their actions modified by association with human beings; they form different habits because human beings are concerned with what they do.

If a person cannot foresee the consequences of his act, and is not capable of understanding what he is told about its outcome by those with more experience, it is impossible for him to guide his act intelligently. In such a state, every act is alike to him.

A child may have to be snatched with roughness away from a fire so that he shall not be burnt.

As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.

We talk much more about individualism and liberty than our ancestors. But as so often happens, when anything becomes conscious, the consciousness is compensatory for absence in practice.