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

An idea is a method of evading, circumventing or surmounting through reflection, obstacles that otherwise would have to be attacked by brute force.

We cannot think of ourselves save as to some extent social being. Hence, we cannot separate the idea of ourselves and our own good from our idea of others and their good.

Of what use, educationally speaking, is it to be able to see the end in the beginning?

When the child sees the parent looking for something, it is as natural for it also to look for the object and to give it over when it finds it, as it was, under other circumstances, to receive it. Multiply such an instance by the thousand details of daily intercourse, and one has a picture of the most permanent and enduring method of giving direction to the activities of the young.

Those engaged in directing the actions of others are always in danger of overlooking the importance of the sequential development of those they direct.

It is difficult to connect general principles with such thoroughly concrete things as children.