The need for growth, for development, for change, is fundamental to life.

All genuine learning comes through experience.

How can the child learn to be a free and responsible citizen when the teacher is bound?

Art is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers, painters, musicians; it is the authentic expression of any and all individuality.

Schools should take an active part in directing social change, and share in the construction of a new social order

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

The result of the educative process is capacity for further education.

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

Creative thinking will improve as we relate the new fact to the old and all facts to each other.

In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available to other experiences.

Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

a problem well put is half solved.

To me faith means not worrying.

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.

We only think when we are confronted with problems.

Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.

The first step in freeing men from external chains was to emancipate them from the internal chains of false beliefs and ideals.

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.