Art is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers, painters, musicians; it is the authentic expression of any and all individuality.
Instruction is important.
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply ingrained attitudes of aversion and preference.
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
To me faith means not worrying.
Creative thinking will improve as we relate the new fact to the old and all facts to each other.
The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.
Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society.
We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.
The most important factor in the training of good mental habits consists in acquiring the attitude of suspended conclusion, and in mastering the various methods of searching for new materials to corroborate or to refute the first suggestions that occur.
Talk of democracy has little content when big business rules the life of the country through its control of the means of production, exchange, the press and other means of publicity, propaganda and communication.
The conception of education as a social process and function has no definite meaning until we define the kind of society we have in mind.
Any education given by a group tends to socialize its members, but the quality and the value of the socialization depends upon the habits and aims of the group. Hence, once more, the need of a measure for the worth of any given mode of social life.