Since education is not a means to living, but is identical with the operation of living a life which is fruitful and inherently significant, the only ultimate value which can be set up is just the process of living itself. And this is not an end to which studies and activities are subordinate means; it is the whole of which they are ingredients.

The Middle Works, 1899-1924 (ed. SIU Press, 1980) - ISBN: 9780809309337