Collateral learning in the way of formation of enduring attitudes, of likes and dislikes, may be and often is much more important than the spelling lesson or lesson in geography or history that is learned.
Philosophy recovers itself when it ceases to be a device for dealing with the problems of philosophers and becomes a method, cultivated by philosophers, for dealing with the problems of men.
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.
The acquisition of skills is not an end in itself. They are things to be put to use, and that use is their contribution to a common and shared life.
Since growth is the characteristic of life, education is all one with growing; it has no end beyond itself. The criterion of the value of school education is the extent in which it creates a desire for continuous growth and supplies means for making the desire effective in fact.
The religious is any activity pursued in behalf of an ideal end against obstacles and in spite of threats of personal loss because of its general and enduring value.
An undesirable society, in other words, is one which internally and externally sets up barriers to free intercourse and communication of experience.
Popular psychology is a mass of cant, of slush and of superstition worthy of the most flourishing days of the medicine man.
We have lost confidence in reason because we have learned that man is chiefly a creature of habit and emotion.
Choice is the declaration by self that a certain ideal of self shall be realized.
Men’s fundamental attitudes toward the world are fixed by the scope and qualities of the activities in which they partake.
When men think and believe in one set of symbols and act in ways which are contrary to their professed and conscious ideas, confusion and insincerity are bound to result.
The end justifies the means only when the means used are such as actually bring about the desired and desirable end.
If we learn not humility, we learn nothing.
As a child lives today, he will live tomorrow.
Method means that arrangement of subject matter which makes it most effective in use. Never is method something outside of the material.
The aim of education is growth: the aim of growth is more growth.
You can teach students to develop the ability to think reflectively, and you can help them understand what this means, but if they are not inclined to do so they never will.
It science involves an intelligent and persistent endeavor to revise current beliefs so as to weed out what is erroneous, to add to their accuracy, and, above all, to give them such shape that the dependencies of the various facts upon one another may be as obvious as possible.
Always make the other person feel important.