Education, in its broadest sense, is the means of this social continuity of life.
The ultimate aim of production is not production of goods but the production of free human beings associated with one another on terms of equality.
The plea for the predominance of learning to read in early school life because of the great importance attaching to literature seems to be a perversion.
Education is life itself.
Confidence is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life.
Intellectually religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it.
One of the saddest things about US education is that the wisdom of our most successful teachers is lost to the profession when they retire.
Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone’s knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier.
As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure.
The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
Hunger not to have, but to be.
Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.
Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.
We only think when we are confronted with problems.
Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.
Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart’s desire.
Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and elaborate technique of inquiry.
Purposeful action is thus the goal of all that is truly educative.
Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.