“Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.”

“Education is a social process; education is growth; education is not preparation for life but is life itself.”

“We always live at the time we live and not at some other time, and only by extracting at each present time the full meaning of each present experience are we prepared for doing the same thing in the future.”

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

“The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.”

“Were all instructors to realize that the quality of mental process, not the production of correct answers, is the measure of educative growth something hardly less than a revolution in teaching would be worked.”

“There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts and truths possess educational value in and of themselves is the reason why traditional education reduced the material of education so largely to a diet of predigested materials.”