Since in reality there is nothing to which growth is relative save more growth, there is nothing to which education is subordinate save more education.‎

Experience alone cannot deliver to us necessary truths; truths completely demonstrated by reason. Its conclusions are particular, not universal.

In fact, the human young are so immature that if they were left to themselves without the guidance and succor of others, they could not acquire the rudimentary abilities necessary for physical existence.

Experiences in order to be educative must lead out into an expanding world of subject matter, a subject matter of facts or information and of ideas. This condition is satisfied only as the educator views teaching and learning as a continuous process of reconstruction of experience.

I believe that in this way the teacher always is the prophet of the true God and the usherer in of the true kingdom of God.

Thinking is the accurate and deliberate instituting of connections between what is done and its consequences.

The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education — or that the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth.