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

Villages are small and personal, and their inhabitants have names, characters, and personalities. What more appropriate concept on which to base our institutions of the future than the ancient social unit whose flexibility and strength substained human society through millenia?

The world by and large has to be reinvented.

The best learning happens in real life with real problems and real people and not in classrooms.

Talent comes with an individual name tag.

Change is only another word for growth, another synonym for learning.

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