As a child lives today, he will live tomorrow.

The spontaneous power of the child, his demand for self-expression, can not by any possibility be suppressed.

Teaching can be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless someone buys ... yet there are teachers who think they have done a good day's teaching irrespective of what the pupils have learned.

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.

The school has the function of coordinating within the disposition of each individual the diverse influences of the various social environments into which he enters.

What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all of its children.

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.