Democracy Means The Belief That

But Progress In Knowledge Has Made Us Aware Of The Superficiality Of Plato's Lumping Of Individuals And Their Original Powers Into A Few Sharply Marked-off Classes; It Has Taught Us That Original Capacities Are Indefinitely Numerous And Variable. It Is But The Other Side Of This Fact To Say That In The Degree In Which Society Has Become Democratic, Social Organization Means Utilization Of The Specific And Variable Qualities Of Individuals, Not Stratification By Classes.

Without Some Goals And Some Efforts To Reach It, No Man Can Live.

An Education Could Be Given Which Would Sift Individuals, Discovering What They Were Good For, And Supplying A Method Of Assigning Each To The Work In Life For Which His Nature Fits Him.

How Can The Child Learn To Be A Free And Responsible Citizen When The Teacher Is Bound?

Failure Is Instructive. The Person Who Really Thinks Learns Quite As Much From His Failures As From His Successes.