All education which develops power to share effectively in social life is moral.

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.

There is not, in fact, any such thing as the direct influence of one human being on another apart from use of the physical environment as an intermediary. A smile, a frown, a rebuke, a word of warning or encouragement, all involve some physical change. Otherwise, the attitude of one would not get over to alter the attitude of another.

As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure.

Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.

If we teach today's students as we taught yesterday's, we rob them of tomorrow.

Some experiences are mis-educative. Any experience is mis-educative that has the effect of arresting or distorting the growth of further experience.

A response is not just a re-action, a protest, as it were, against being disturbed; it is, as the word indicates, an answer. It meets the stimulus, and corresponds with it.

Every living being needs continually renewed, and education is simply the chief process by which renewal occurs.

Mind is a verb not a noun.

Within even the most social group there are many relations that are not as yet social.

The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.

If the eye is constantly greeted by harmonious objects, having elegance of form and color, a standard of taste naturally grows up.

The moment philosophy supposes it can find a final and comprehensive solution, it ceases to be inquiry and becomes either apologetics or propaganda.

Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.

As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.

Democracy means the belief that humanistic culture should prevail.

I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.

The best preparation for the future is a well-spent today.

The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.