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

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

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.

A consultant solves other people"s problems. I could never do that. I want to help other people solve their own problems.

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?

I believe that a lot of our striving after the symbols and levers of success is due to a basic insecurity, a need to prove ourselves. That done, grown up at last, we are free to stop pretending.