Time with his old flail Beat me full sore; Till: Hold, I cried, I’ll stand no more. Then I heard a wail And looking spied How love’s little bow Had laid time low.
One can think effectively only when one is willing to endure suspense and to undergo the trouble of searching.
The origin of thinking is some perplexity, confusion or doubt.
The central problem of an education based upon experience is to select the kind of present experience that live fruitfully and creatively in subsequent experiences.
Insight into soul-action, ability to discriminate the genuine from the sham and capacity to further one and discourage the other.
Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites.
Liberty is not just an idea, an abstract principle. It is power, effective power to do specific things. There is no such thing as liberty in general; liberty, so to speak, at large.
Every teacher should realize he is a social servant set apart for the maintenance of the proper social order and the securing of the right social growth. In this way, the teacher always is the prophet of the true God and the usherer-in of the true Kingdom of God.
Society exists through a process of transmission quite as much as biological life. This transmission occurs by means of communication of habits of doing, thinking, and feeling from the older to the younger.
Change as change is mere flux and lapse; it insults intelligence. Genuinely to know is to grasp a permanent end that realizes itself through changes.
Nature as a whole is a progressive realization of purpose strictly comparable to the realization of purpose in any single plant or animal.
Not perfection as a final goal, but the ever-enduring process of perfecting, maturing, refining is the aim of living.
It is difficult to connect general principles with such thoroughly concrete things as children.
Some experiences are mis-educative. Any experience is mis-educative that has the effect of arresting or distorting the growth of further experience.
Teachers are the agents through which knowledge and skills are communicated and rules of conduct enforced.
Poetry has historically been allied with religion and morals; it has served the purpose of penetrating the mysterious depths of things.
A person who is trained to consider his actions, to undertake them deliberately, is in so far forth disciplined. Add to this ability a power to endure in an intelligently chosen course in the face of distraction, confusion, and difficulty, and you have the essence of discipline.
One might as well say he has sold when no one has bought as to say he has taught when no one has learned.
We talk much more about individualism and liberty than our ancestors. But as so often happens, when anything becomes conscious, the consciousness is compensatory for absence in practice.
We cannot think of ourselves save as to some extent social being. Hence, we cannot separate the idea of ourselves and our own good from our idea of others and their good.