Man's most human characteristic is not his ability to learn, which he shares with many other species, but his ability to teach and store what others have developed and taught him.

From a hundred cultures, [there is] one culture which does what no culture has ever done before-gives a place to every human gift.

The negative cautions of science are never popular. If the experimentalist would not commit himself, the social philosopher, the preacher, and the pedagogue tried the harder to give a short-cut answer.

In contrast to our own social environment which brings out different aspects of human nature and often demonstrated that behavior which occurs almost invariably in individuals within our society is nevertheless due not to original nature but to social environment; and a homogeneous and simple development of the individual may be studied.

Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.