...the moment of passage from disturbance into harmony is that of intensest life.

If there is one conclusion to which human experience unmistakably points it is that democratic ends demand democratic methods for their realization.

The most important factor in the training of good mental habits consists in acquiring the attitude of suspended conclusion, and in mastering the various methods of searching for new materials to corroborate or to refute the first suggestions that occur.

Education as growth or maturity should be an ever-present process.

The development occurs through reciprocal give-and-take, the teacher taking but not being afraid also to give.

Teaching may be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless somebody buys.

All direction is but re-direction; it shifts the activities already going on into another channel. Unless one is cognizant of the energies which are already in operation, one's attempts at direction will almost surely go amiss.