"Religion, too, has been explained away, but this has left us without a standpoint from which to understand our experi…"

"There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it…"

"Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows th…"

"Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to …"

"Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconst…"

"We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with th…"

"The history of liberal thought since Locke and Smith has been one almost unbroken decline in philosophic substance."

"When the liberal, or what came to be called the utilitarian, teaching became dominant, as is the case with most victo…"

"There is no real education that does not respond to felt need; anything else acquired is trifling display."

"Parents “have nothing to give their children in the way of a vision of the world.”"