Etymologically, the word education means just a process of leading or bringing up.

When things have a meaning for us, we mean (intend, propose) what we do: when they do not, we act blindly, unconsciously, unintelligently.

Legislation is a matter of more or less intelligent improvisation aiming at palliating conditions by means of patchwork policies.

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

Modern life means democracy, democracy means freeing intelligence for independent effectivenessthe emancipation of mind as an individual organ to do its own work. We naturally associate democracy, to be sure, with freedom of action, but freedom of action without freed capacity of thought behind it is only chaos.

Fundamental modes of speech, the bulk of the vocabulary, are formed in the ordinary intercourse of life, carried on not as a set means of instruction but as a social necessity.

Intelligent thinking means an increment of freedom in action-an emancipation from chance and fatality. 'Thought' represents the suggestion of a way of response that is different from that which would have been followed if intelligent observation had not effected an inference as to the future.

The end justifies the means only when the means used are such as actually bring about the desired and desirable end.

Democracy means the belief that humanistic culture should prevail.