The future is not inevitable. We can influence it, if we know what we want it to be.

Home is the first school for us all, a school with no fixed curriculum, no quality control, no examinations, no teacher training

Why don't we teach our children in school what they are? We should say to them, 'You are unique... you have the capacity for anything. You are a marvel'.

The first step is to measure whatever can easily be measured. This is OK as far as it goes. The second step is to disregard that which can't be easily measured or to give it an arbitrary quantitative value. This is artificial and misleading. The third step is to presume that what can't be measured easily really isn't important. This is blindness. The fourth step is to say that what can't be easily measured really doesn't exist. This is suicide.

Most of us prefer to walk backward into the future, a posture that may be uncomfortable but which at least allows us to keep on looking at familiar things as long as we can.

Purpose, pattern, and people, the three P's at the heart of life.

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