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

We learn by reflecting on what has happened. The process seldom works in reverse, although most educational processes assume that it does. We hope that we can teach people how to live before they live, or how to manage before they manage.

I like less the story that a frog if put in cold water will not bestir itself if that water is heated up slowly and gradually and will in the end let itself be killed, boiled alive, too comfortable with continuity to realize that continuous change at some point may become intolerable and demand a change in behaviour.

The sobering thought is that individuals and societies are not, in the end, remembered for how they made their money, but for how they spent it.

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.

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.