I Should Venture To Assert That The

I Believe That The School Must Represent Present Life - Life As Real And Vital To The Child As That Which He Carries On In The Home, In The Neighborhood, Or On The Play-ground.

Science Is A Systematic Means Of Gaining Reliable Knowledge.

Hunger Not To Have, But To Be

Education Is Not An Affair Of 'telling' And Being Told, But An Active And Constructive Process.

Men Have Never Fully Used [their] Powers To Advance The Good In Life, Because They Have Waited Upon Some Power External To Themselves And To Nature To Do The Work They Are Responsible For Doing.