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A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. - [Democracy] Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another. - [Goals] As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure. - [Art] Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril. - [Thinking] School is not preparation for life, but school is life. - [Schools] Teaching may be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless somebody buys. - [Teaching] The reactionaries are in possession of force, in not only the army and police, but in the press and the schools. - [Reactionaries] To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness. - [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. - [Democracy] We only think when we are confronted with a problem. - [Problems] When men think and believe in one set of symbols and act in ways which are contrary to their professed and conscious ideas, confusion and insincerity are bound to result. - [Hypocrisy] Only in education, never in the life of farmer, sailor, merchant, physician, or laboratory experimenter, does knowledge mean primarily a store of information aloof from doing. - Democracy in Education (ch. 14) [Knowledge]
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