Ordinary citizens are so accepting of what is going on, grumbling when their material interests were affected, but seemingly accepting the spiritual poverty so characteristic of today.

The moment will arrive when you are comfortable with who you are, and what you are- bald or old or fat or poor, successful or struggling- when you don't feel the need to apologize for anything or to deny anything. To be comfortable in your own skin is the beginning of strength.

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

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.

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

Learning is experience understood in tranquility.