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 only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.

If the members who compose a society lived on continuously, they might educate the new-born members, but it would be a task directed by personal interest rather than social need. Now it is a work of necessity.

The first office of the social organ we call the school is to provide a simplified environment. It selects the features which are fairly fundamental and capable of being responded to by the young. Then it establishes a progressive order, using the factors first acquired as means of gaining insight into what is more complicated.

The result of the educative process is capacity for further education.

All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate.

Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.