I believe that the teacher's place and work in the school is to be interpreted from this same basis. The teacher is not in the school to impose certa….

The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic..

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

Doctrine that eliminates or even obscures the function of choice of values and enlistment of desires and emotions in behalf of those chosen weakens p….

We do not learn from experience...we learn from reflecting on experience..

The interaction of knowledge and skills with experience is key to learning..

Adequate control means that the successive acts are brought into a continuous order; each act not only meets its immediate stimulus but helps the act….

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

The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning..

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..

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

The real process of education should be the process of learning to think through the application of real problems..

Education is not an affair of 'telling' and being told, but an active and constructive process..

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself..

You cannot teach today the same way you did yesterday to prepare students for tomorrow..

A society with too few independent thinkers is vulnerable to control by disturbed and opportunistic leaders. A society which wants to create and main….

Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results..

If we learn not humility, we learn nothing..

Education must be understood as growth, or the facilitation of growth..

All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate..

The school must be "a genuine form of active community life, instead of a place set apart in which to learn lessons"..