“Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.”

Thinking and feeling that have to do with action in association with others is as much a social mode of behavior as is the most overt cooperative or hostile act.

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

Hunger not to have, but to be.

Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.

We may lead a horse to water we cannot make him drink; and that while we can shut a man up in a penitentiary we cannot make him penitent.

To me faith means not worrying.

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.

Insecurity cuts deeper and extends more widely than bare unemployment. Fear of loss of work, dread of the oncoming of old age, create anxiety and eat into self-respect in a way that impairs personal dignity.

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

Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.

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

To me, faith means not worrying.

I believe finally, that education must be conceived as a continuing reconstruction of experience; that the process and the goal of education are one and the same thing.

Wonder is the mother of all science.

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

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

It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.

The simplest explanation is always the most likely.

Never was I power thirsty, or trying to control everyone. I believed in educating everyone, so they could all get to the position I was at.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

Stupid people go to college but “smart people own them”

Don’t shut yourself up in a band box because you are a woman, but understand what is going on, and educate yourself to take part in the world’s work, for it all affects you and yours.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education.