Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed or can be made to agree about facts of sensible experience through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive and over which the individual will and character have no control.

I write out of my intellectual experience.

Skill is the unified force of experience intellect and passion in their operation.

Experience without theory is blind but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty and that such equality may best and perhaps only be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor.

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.

Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds widen their horizons inflame their intellects teach them to think straight if possible.

Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state.

Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects characters and behavior of men its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims materials means and methods.