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

We cannot wait for great visions from great people, for they are in short supply. It is up to us to light our own small fires in the darkness.

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.

Citizenship is the chance to make a difference to the place where you belong.

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

You have to stand outside the box to see how the box can be re-designed.

The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised. I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.