I believe that a lot of our striving after the symbols and levers of success is due to a basic insecurity, a need to prove ourselves. That done, grown up at last, we are free to stop pretending.

Creativity is born of chaos, even if it is somewhat difficult to glimpse the possibilities in the midst of the confusion.

Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child

We should see schools as safe arenas for experimenting with life, for discovering our talents... for taking responsibity for tasks and others people, for learning how to learn... and for exploring our beliefs about life and society.

The market is a mechanism for sorting the efficient from the inefficient, it is not a substitute for responsibility.

A good team is a great place to be, exciting, stimulating, supportive, successful. A bad team is horrible, a sort of human prison.

There is as far as I know, no example in history, of any state voluntarily ceding power from the centre to its constituent parts.